Finding all functions of certain type - go

Question

Is there a way to list out all functions that uses/returns a specific type?
For example: I'm interested to use the following function.
func ListenAndServe(addr string, handler Handler) error
How can I find out all functions (across all Go packages) that can return a Handler?

Answer 1

I'd write an analysis tool using the x/tools/go/analysis framework. Here's a rough sketch that you can run on any module (it uses go/packages underneath so it fully supports modules):
import (
"bytes"
"fmt"
"go/ast"
"go/format"
"go/token"
"golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis"
"golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis/singlechecker"
)
var RtAnalysis = &analysis.Analyzer{
Name: "rtanalysis",
Doc: "finds functions by return type",
Run: run,
}
func main() {
singlechecker.Main(RtAnalysis)
}
func run(pass *analysis.Pass) (interface{}, error) {
for _, file := range pass.Files {
ast.Inspect(file, func(n ast.Node) bool {
if funcTy, ok := n.(*ast.FuncType); ok {
if funcTy.Results != nil {
for _, fl := range funcTy.Results.List {
if tv, ok := pass.TypesInfo.Types[fl.Type]; ok {
if tv.Type.String() == "net/http.Handler" {
ns := nodeString(funcTy, pass.Fset)
fmt.Printf("%s has return of type net/http.Handler\n", ns)
}
}
}
}
}
return true
})
}
return nil, nil
}
// nodeString formats a syntax tree in the style of gofmt.
func nodeString(n ast.Node, fset *token.FileSet) string {
var buf bytes.Buffer
format.Node(&buf, fset, n)
return buf.String()
}