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Shared errors and error interface used throughout the various libraries found in the go-openapi toolkit.

## Announcements

* **2025-12-19** : new community chat on discord
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## Status

API is stable.

## Import this library in your project

```cmd
go get github.com/go-openapi/errors
```

## Basic usage

```go
const url = "https://www.example.com/#"

errGeneric := New(401,"onvalid argument: %s", url)

errNotFound := NotFound("resource not found: %s", url)

errNotImplemented := NotImplemented("method: %s", url)
```

## Change log

See <https://github.com/go-openapi/errors/releases>

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## Licensing

This library ships under the [SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0](./LICENSE).

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## Other documentation

* [All-time contributors](./CONTRIBUTORS.md)
* [Contributing guidelines](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)
* [Maintainers documentation](docs/MAINTAINERS.md)
* [Code style](docs/STYLE.md)

## Cutting a new release

Maintainers can cut a new release by either:

* running [this workflow](https://github.com/go-openapi/errors/actions/workflows/bump-release.yml)
* or pushing a semver tag
  * signed tags are preferred
  * The tag message is prepended to release notes

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