Incorrect usage of the 'errors.As' function

Reports calls of the errors.As function when the second argument is not a pointer to an interface or to a type that implements an error.

Such calls panic at runtime.

For more information about the As function, refer to func As at go.dev.

Example:

_, err := os.Open("non-existing")
var pathError *fs.PathError
if errors.As(err, pathError) { // a pointer to *fs.PathError is required
}

After the Prepend '&' quick-fix is applied:

_, err := os.Open("non-existing")
var pathError *fs.PathError
if errors.As(err, &pathError) {
}

Locating this inspection

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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

GoErrorsAs

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This inspection only reports if the language version is 1.13 or higher.

Inspection ID: GoErrorsAs

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection GoErrorsAs

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

GoLand 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	GoLand 2025.2, Qodana for Go 2025.2,
Can be installed with plugin:	Go, 252.26654.0

Last modified: 18 September 2025