App for fetching and uploading images to cloud bucket storage

server/handler/error.go

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+package handler
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"net/http"
+
+	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+)
+
+// handleError - Logs the error (if shouldLog is true), and outputs the error message (msg)
+func handleError(w http.ResponseWriter, err error, msg string, statusCode int, shouldLog bool) {
+	if shouldLog {
+		log.WithField("err", err).Error(msg)
+	}
+
+	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+	w.WriteHeader(statusCode)
+	errorJSON, _ := json.Marshal(struct {
+		Error string `json:"error"`
+	}{
+		Error: msg,
+	})
+	w.Write(errorJSON)
+}