exerr [WIP]

(cherry picked from commit c0443af63b)

exerr/data.go

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+package exerr
+
+type ErrorCategory struct{ Category string }
+
+var (
+	CatWrap    = ErrorCategory{"Wrap"}    // The error is simply wrapping another error (e.g. when a grpc call returns an error)
+	CatSystem  = ErrorCategory{"System"}  // An internal system error (e.g. connection to db failed)
+	CatUser    = ErrorCategory{"User"}    // The user (the API caller) did something wrong (e.g. he has no permissions to do this)
+	CatForeign = ErrorCategory{"Foreign"} // A foreign error that some component threw (e.g. an unknown mongodb error), happens if we call Wrap(..) on an non-bmerror value
+)
+
+var AllCategories = []ErrorCategory{CatWrap, CatSystem, CatUser, CatForeign}
+
+type ErrorSeverity struct{ Severity string }
+
+var (
+	SevTrace = ErrorSeverity{"Trace"}
+	SevDebug = ErrorSeverity{"Debug"}
+	SevInfo  = ErrorSeverity{"Info"}
+	SevWarn  = ErrorSeverity{"Warn"}
+	SevErr   = ErrorSeverity{"Err"}
+	SevFatal = ErrorSeverity{"Fatal"}
+)
+
+var AllSeverities = []ErrorSeverity{SevTrace, SevDebug, SevInfo, SevWarn, SevErr, SevFatal}
+
+type ErrorType struct{ Key string }
+
+var (
+	TypeInternal = ErrorType{"Internal"}
+	// other values come from pkgconfig
+)