container/msg: optionally provide error messages

This makes handling of fatal errors a lot less squirmy.

Signed-off-by: Ophestra <cat@gensokyo.uk>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/container/msg.go b/container/msg.go
index 40f0bd4a..4be0fd2d 100644
--- a/container/msg.go
+++ b/container/msg.go
@@ -1,10 +1,28 @@
 package container
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"log"
 	"sync/atomic"
 )
 
+// MessageError is an error with a user-facing message.
+type MessageError interface {
+	// Message returns a user-facing error message.
+	Message() string
+
+	error
+}
+
+// GetErrorMessage returns whether an error implements [MessageError], and the message if it does.
+func GetErrorMessage(err error) (string, bool) {
+	var e MessageError
+	if !errors.As(err, &e) || e == nil {
+		return zeroString, false
+	}
+	return e.Message(), true
+}
+
 type Msg interface {
 	IsVerbose() bool
 	Verbose(v ...any)