Package panics allows for panics to be safely handled and notified on. It provides helper functions that can safely handle and recover from unhandled panics and an API similar to os/signal for panic notifications.
The goal of this package is to provide programs a way to centralize panic handling and thus coordinate an orderly shutdown once a panic is detected. It also allows for programs to control how panics and their associated stack trace are logged.
This package does not make unhandled panics safe (nothing can), but is instead designed to prevent an unhandled panic from abruptly halting a program before any cleanup, termination, or alerting can be completed.
When a unhandled panic is detected the program should immediately initiate shutdown. A panic indicates that the program is in an unreasonable state and continuing execution may result in undefined behavior.
panics is available using the standard go get command.
Install by running:
go get github.com/charlievieth/panics