package wire

import (
	"fmt"
)

// MessageError describes an issue with a message. An example of some potential issues are messages from the wrong
// bitcoin network, invalid commands, mismatched checksums, and exceeding max payloads. This provides a mechanism for
// the caller to type assert the error to differentiate between general io errors such as io.EOF and issues that
// resulted from malformed messages.
type MessageError struct {
	Func        string // Function name
	Description string // Human readable description of the issue
}

// Error satisfies the error interface and prints human-readable errors.
func (e *MessageError) Error() string {
	if e.Func != "" {
		return fmt.Sprintf("%v: %v", e.Func, e.Description)
	}
	return e.Description
}

// messageError creates an error for the given function and description.
func messageError(f string, desc string) *MessageError {
	return &MessageError{Func: f, Description: desc}
}