'errors.As' can be replaced with 'errors.AsType'

Reports calls to errors.As that can be replaced with errors.AsType.

In Go 1.26 and later, errors.AsType[T] returns the matched error value directly. This removes the separately declared variable and the pointer passed to errors.As.

Example:

func Describe(err error) string {
	var pe *PathError
	if errors.As(err, &pe) {
		return fmt.Sprintf("path error during %s", pe.Op)
	}
	return "other"
}

To fix the code, use the Replace errors.As with AsType[*PathError] quick-fix.

After the quick-fix is applied:

func Describe(err error) string {
	if pe, ok := errors.AsType[*PathError](err); ok {
		return fmt.Sprintf("path error during %s", pe.Op)
	}
	return "other"
}

Locating this inspection

By ID

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

GoFixErrorsAsType

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Go | Go fix

Inspection ID: GoFixErrorsAsType

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 GoFixErrorsAsType

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

GoLand 2026.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	GoLand 2026.2, Qodana for Go 2026.2,

Last modified: 30 June 2026