* travis build 1.6+

* Error type implements error and (hashicorp) errwrap interface

Author: Jan Seidl

.travis.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 language: go
 
 go:
-  - 1.5
   - 1.6
   - 1.7
   - 1.8

Makefile

@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@ TEST_PATTERN?=.
 TEST_OPTIONS?=
 DEP?=$$(which dep)
 
-GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1
-export GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT
-
 ifeq ($(OS),Windows_NT)
 	DEP_VERS=dep-windows-amd64
 else

README.md

@@ -79,6 +79,31 @@ func RetryWithOpts(retryableFunction Retryable, opts RetryOpts) error
 ```
 RetryWithOpts - customizable retry via RetryOpts
 
+#### type Error
+
+```go
+type Error []error
+```
+
+Error type represents list of errors in retry
+
+#### func (Error) Error
+
+```go
+func (e Error) Error() string
+```
+Error method return string representation of Error It is an implementation of
+error interface
+
+#### func (Error) WrappedErrors
+
+```go
+func (e Error) WrappedErrors() []error
+```
+WrappedErrors returns the list of errors that this Error is wrapping. It is an
+implementation of the errwrap.Wrapper interface so that multierror.Error can be
+used with that library.
+
 #### type OnRetry
 
 ```go

VERSION

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0.3.0

retry.go

@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ SEE ALSO
 
 * [cenkalti/backoff](https://github.com/cenkalti/backoff) - Go port of the exponential backoff algorithm from Google's HTTP Client Library for Java. Really complicated interface.
 
+* [rafaeljesus/retry-go](https://github.com/rafaeljesus/retry-go) - looks good, slightly similar as this package, don't have 'simple' `Retry` method
+
+* [matryer/try](https://github.com/matryer/try) - very popular package, nonintuitive interface (for me)
+
 */
 package retry
 
@@ -71,7 +75,7 @@ func RetryWithOpts(retryableFunction Retryable, opts RetryOpts) error {
 func RetryCustom(retryableFunction Retryable, onRetryFunction OnRetry, opts RetryOpts) error {
 	var n uint
 
-	errorLog := make(errorLog, opts.tries)
+	errorLog := make(Error, opts.tries)
 
 	for n < opts.tries {
 		err := retryableFunction()
@@ -89,16 +93,27 @@ func RetryCustom(retryableFunction Retryable, onRetryFunction OnRetry, opts Retr
 		n++
 	}
 
-	return fmt.Errorf("All (%d) retries fail:\n%s", opts.tries, errorLog)
+	return errorLog
 }
 
-type errorLog []error
+// Error type represents list of errors in retry
+type Error []error
 
-func (log errorLog) String() string {
-	logWithNumber := make([]string, len(log))
-	for i, l := range log {
+// Error method return string representation of Error
+// It is an implementation of error interface
+func (e Error) Error() string {
+	logWithNumber := make([]string, len(e))
+	for i, l := range e {
 		logWithNumber[i] = fmt.Sprintf("#%d: %s", i+1, l.Error())
 	}
 
-	return strings.Join(logWithNumber, "\n")
+	return fmt.Sprintf("All retries fail:\n%s", strings.Join(logWithNumber, "\n"))
+}
+
+// WrappedErrors returns the list of errors that this Error is wrapping.
+// It is an implementation of the `errwrap.Wrapper` interface
+// in package [errwrap](https://github.com/hashicorp/errwrap) so that
+// `retry.Error` can be used with that library.
+func (e Error) WrappedErrors() []error {
+	return e
 }

retry_test.go

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ func TestCustom(t *testing.T) {
 	)
 	assert.Error(t, err)
 
-	expectedErrorFormat := `All (10) retries fail:
+	expectedErrorFormat := `All retries fail:
 #1: test
 #2: test
 #3: test