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Piotr Dulikowski
80f6224959 utils: add exception_container
Adds `exception_container` - a helper type used to hold exceptions as a
value, without involving the std::exception_ptr.

The motivation behind this type is that it allows inspecting exception's
type and value without having to rethrow that exception and catch it,
unlike std::exception_ptr. In our current codebase, some exception
handling paths need to rethrow the exception multiple times in order to
account it into metrics or encode it as an error response to the CQL
client. Some types of exceptions can be thrown very frequently in case
of overload (e.g. timeouts) and inspecting those exceptions with
rethrows can make the overload even worse. For those kinds of exceptions
it is important to handle them as cheaply as possible, and
exception_container used with conjunction with boost::outcome::result
can help achieve that.
2022-02-04 20:18:00 +01:00