Expose errors field in googleapi.Error

[gmlewis]

agoode@google.com on 28 Nov 2012 at 3:22:

The Error type of googleapi only exposes code and message. But the errors field 
is needed in order to get the reason so that the recommended exponential 
backoff can be implemented:

https://developers.google.com/drive/handle-errors#implementing_exponential_backo
ff

[gmlewis]

agoode@google.com on 5 Dec 2012 at 5:14:

# HG changeset patch
# User Adam Goode <agoode@google.com>
# Date 1354684473 18000
# Node ID 2ad2fa6fd4f37ea3c84ef5b12362aec029858b7c
# Parent  4e26f8e050b6aa8abc9a417c1aac886670412cb5
Expose errors field in googleapi.Error

diff -r 4e26f8e050b6 -r 2ad2fa6fd4f3 googleapi/googleapi.go
--- a/googleapi/googleapi.go    Wed Dec 05 00:10:56 2012 -0500
+++ b/googleapi/googleapi.go    Wed Dec 05 00:14:33 2012 -0500
@@ -28,11 +28,22 @@
    ContentType() string
 }

-const Version = "0.5"
+const Version = "0.6"

 type Error struct {
-   Code    int    `json:"code"`
-   Message string `json:"message"`
+   Code    int           `json:"code"`
+   Message string        `json:"message"`
+   Errors  []NestedError `json:"errors"`
+}
+
+type NestedError struct {
+   Domain       string `json:"domain"`
+   Reason       string `json:"reason"`
+   Message      string `json:"message"`
+   Location     string `json:"location"`
+   LocationType string `json:"locationType"`
+   ExtendedHelp string `json:"extendedHelp"`
+   SendReport   string `json:"sendReport"`
 }

 func (e *Error) Error() string {

[gmlewis]

Successfully auto-migrated from code.google.com:
https://code.google.com/p/google-api-go-client/issues/detail?id=19

[gmlewis]

This issue was addressed by:
7278d07
Now clients can fully parse error messages returned by servers and retrieve the fields they are interested in.
Closing.