Introduce generic 'Result' class

Useful to encapsulate the function result object (in case of having it) or, in case of failure, the failure reason.

This let us clean lot of boilerplate code, as now instead of returning a boolean and having to add a ref arg for the
return object and another ref for the error string. We can simply return a 'BResult<Obj>'.

Example of what we currently have:
```
bool doSomething(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, &result, &error_string) {
    do something...
    if (error) {
        error_string = "something bad happened";
        return false;
    }

    result = goodResult;
    return true;
}
```

Example of what we will get with this commit:
```
BResult<Obj> doSomething(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4) {
    do something...
    if (error) return {"something happened"};

    // good
    return {goodResult};
}
```

This allows a similar boilerplate cleanup on the function callers side as well. They don't have to add the extra
pre-function-call error string and result object declarations to pass the references to the function.

2 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index 3fbbe180fc..a9e9db0a7d 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ BITCOIN_CORE_H = \
   util/overloaded.h \
   util/rbf.h \
   util/readwritefile.h \
+  util/result.h \
   util/serfloat.h \
   util/settings.h \
   util/sock.h \
diff --git a/src/util/result.h b/src/util/result.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dcf5edaa5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/util/result.h
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2022 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+// file COPYING or https://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+#ifndef BITCOIN_UTIL_RESULT_H
+#define BITCOIN_UTIL_RESULT_H
+
+#include <util/translation.h>
+#include <variant>
+
+/*
+ * 'BResult' is a generic class useful for wrapping a return object
+ * (in case of success) or propagating the error cause.
+*/
+template<class T>
+class BResult {
+private:
+    std::variant<bilingual_str, T> m_variant;
+
+public:
+    BResult() : m_variant(Untranslated("")) {}
+    BResult(const T& _obj) : m_variant(_obj) {}
+    BResult(const bilingual_str& error) : m_variant(error) {}
+
+    /* Whether the function succeeded or not */
+    bool HasRes() const { return std::holds_alternative<T>(m_variant); }
+
+    /* In case of success, the result object */
+    const T& GetObj() const {
+        assert(HasRes());
+        return std::get<T>(m_variant);
+    }
+
+    /* In case of failure, the error cause */
+    const bilingual_str& GetError() const {
+        assert(!HasRes());
+        return std::get<bilingual_str>(m_variant);
+    }
+
+    explicit operator bool() const { return HasRes(); }
+};
+
+#endif // BITCOIN_UTIL_RESULT_H