Handle repetitive error cases in one place

I'm writing a function which writes a struct of multiple fields to a TCP connection. Is there a way to handle errors in one place like catching exception in Java?

My implementation looks like,

func writeFrame(frame *Frame, conn net.Conn) error {
bo := binary.BigEndian
if err := binary.Write(conn, bo, frame.ype); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := binary.Write(conn, bo, frame.id); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := binary.Write(conn, bo, frame.seq); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := binary.Write(conn, bo, uint32(len(frame.arg1))); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := binary.Write(conn, bo, uint32(len(frame.arg2))); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := binary.Write(conn, bo, uint32(len(frame.arg3))); err != nil {
return err
}
var csum uint32
if err := binary.Write(conn, bo, csum); err != nil {
return err
}
if _, err := conn.Write(frame.arg1); err != nil {
return err
}
if _, err := conn.Write(frame.arg2); err != nil {
return err
}
if _, err := conn.Write(frame.arg3); err != nil {
return err
}
return nil
}

You could create a simple type that stores a bunch of writes and executes them all at once, bailing as soon as an error is encountered.

type MyWriter struct {
W     io.Writer
O     binary.ByteOrder
items []interface{}
}
func (w *MyWriter) AddWrite(value interface{}) {
w.items = append(w.items, value)
}
// PerformWrite executes all writes that have been added via AddWrite.
// It aborts as soon as an error is encountered and returns the error.
func (w *MyWriter) PerformWrites() error {
for _, item := range w.items {
if err := binary.Write(w.W, w.O, item); err != nil {
return err
}
}
return nil
}

With this in place, your writeFrame function might look something like this:

func Write(conn net.Conn) error {
w := MyWriter{W: conn, O: binary.BigEndian}
// queue up your writes (frame.type, frame.id, ...)
w.AddWrite(int32(1))
w.AddWrite(int32(2))
w.AddWrite(int64(3))
if err := w.PerformWrites(); err != nil {
// there was an error
return err
}
return nil
}

You can use a bufio.Writer for this. If any error occurs future Write's will simply return the same error and be ignored.

func writeFrame(frame *Frame, conn net.Conn) error {
bo := binary.BigEndian
w := bufio.NewWriter(conn)
binary.Write(w, bo, frame.ype)
binary.Write(w, bo, frame.id)
binary.Write(w, bo, frame.seq)
binary.Write(w, bo, uint32(len(frame.arg1)))
binary.Write(w, bo, uint32(len(frame.arg2)))
binary.Write(w, bo, uint32(len(frame.arg3)))
var csum uint32
binary.Write(w, bo, csum)
w.Write(frame.arg1)
w.Write(frame.arg2)
w.Write(frame.arg3)
// Write outstanding data to conn and return an error if any occured
return w.Flush()
}

1: http://golang.org/pkg/bufio/#Writer "bufio.Writer"