I was wondering if there is a way to automatically download all the imports.
So let's assume I need to use github.com/gorilla/mux and several other packages in my code base. Should I manually go to my ~/go/src and run go get repo or is there a smarter way of doing dependency management. I am using Goland IDE for my development.
if there is a way to automatically download all the imports
You can download all imported pkgs and their dependencies by running go get from the command line.
I am using Goland IDE for my development
I'm using Goland too. When imports can't be found (ie the import path is highlighted in red), you can place your typing caret over it and press alt + enter and select go get ... from the popup window to automatically import.
There are several approaces:
Simply go get github.com/gorilla/mux which will download sources in your $GOPATH and will be resolved automatically when compiling
Use dependency management (godep, glide[deprecated])
Use modules (experimental feature in Go 1.11 - Module. Check more here)
If you want a good and stable solution, use dep (.First you have to install it, then run:
cd $GOPATH/src/path/to/project
dep init
dep ensure -add github.com/gorilla/mux
You will see a new folder vendor in your project and 2 new dependency configuration files Gopkg.lock and Gopkg.toml.
Read more about godep here.
Then run your main file as usual.
You can use dep package manager which will go through your code and automatically import all the packages you use in you code. If you are working with >go1.11 I would suggest to use newly added go mod.
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I am new to go and have trouble using a library that does not have a go.mod file. The library is https://github.com/yourbasic/graph and I tried installing it according to the instructions given in the go docs. Since I cannot make a request for the version on the repo, I used the #latest flag, so in order to install, I executed
go install github.com/yourbasic/graph#latest
This however fails and says
package github.com/yourbasic/graph is not a main package
Is there a proper way to install libraries like that? I assume my way of proceeding to just copy the files into a directory within my project is not very clean.
As #JimB said: instead of attempting to install it,
Import the package in your code where applicable.
Run go get github.com/yourbasic/graph#latest — which will download the module (to the local cache) and update your module's go.mod file.
Build.
The steps 1 and 2 can be swapped, but then the generated go.mod entry will have the // indirect comment which will disappear next time you run go mod tidy.
I've installed a package using go modules (go get in Go 1.13) and now I want to remove it. In the documentation there is nothing about this and in go get docu neither.
Removing the package from go.mod manually doesn't solve the issue so it remains in go.sum.
How should I remove a package in a clean way?
Found it https://go.dev/blog/using-go-modules#removing-unused-dependencies
go mod tidy
So basically, once the package is not being imported in any package you can perform a go mod tidy and it will safely remove the unused dependencies.
And if you are vendoring the dependencies, then run the command below to make the module changes be applied in the vendor folder:
go mod vendor
#jesugmz answer doesn't say, what if you wanna remove a currently using package in go modules.
So, if you're using go modules (you have a go.mod file in your project) and you want to remove a currently using package, check $GOPATH/pkg/mod/ directory and simply remove the package named package#version.
For example, if you have github.com/some/project package installed, you should run the following command:
rm -rf $(go env GOPATH)/pkg/mod/github.com/some/project#v1.0.0
You can find the using package version in go.mod file.
Say my Go project depends on package example.com/foo. I am using Go 1.12, so the dependency is automatically pulled in by Go modules. That dependency has some problems/bugs, I want to add logs in the source code.
I can find the source code of the dependency on GitHub but I don't know how to make it into my project for debugging purpose.
First fetch all the dependency packages into the vendor folder.
go mod vendor
Then, change the source code in that and build your project by specifying to look into vendor folder.
go build -mod=vendor
or
go run -mod=vendor myapp.go
You can use replace directive:
replace example.com/original/import/path => /your/forked/import/path
Go module fetches packages into $GOPATH/pkg/mod you can change the source code there or using the vendor option of go mod to pull the packages into vendor folder and then start coding there.
I’m trying to figure out if it’s possible to run go mod vendor without the go tool updating my go.mod file.
I specifically go get package/subpackage#commit and commit my go.mod with the correct version.
Then I run go mod vendor and it automatically bumps the version of the package that I just specifically set.
I’ve looked at this page to no avail: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules#how-do-i-use-vendoring-with-modules-is-vendoring-going-away
I need to use vendor because I run a script that edits some of the vendored deps., I’m looking at the following build flow:
GO111MODULE=on go get package/subpackge#commit
GO111MODULE=on go mod vendor
./Script/patch_vendors.sh --write
GO111MODULE=off go build
My other option is modifying the copied source wherever go mod vendor donwloads it to, but
not sure how to approach that.
Thanks in advance
Per https://tip.golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Maintaining_module_requirements:
The go command itself automatically updates the go.mod file to maintain a standard formatting and the accuracy of require statements.
Any go command that finds an unfamiliar import will look up the module containing that import and add the latest version of that module to go.mod automatically. […]
Any go command can determine that a module requirement is missing and must be added […].
The go mod vendor command copies in all of the transitive imports of your packages and their tests, so it will automatically update the go.mod file to ensure that all of the imported packages are present.
So the problem here is likely that the commit you've selected for package/subpackage fails to provide some package that appears in the transitive imports of your program. If that is correct, you should find that go list all, go test all, and go mod tidy all make that same edit to your module's requirements.
I have a project which is built in Node.js/Express.js. I want to start to rewrite this to go/iris framework. I don't want to re-factor everything into my $GOPATH and I want to keep it together my express / go / docker files for this project.
I tried to clone iris framework's git repo into a ./vendor subfolder, but using import "github.com/kataras/iris" importing nothing.
Is there a package manager which is
copying and installing packages and all of it's dependencies in my-project/vendor folder outside $GOPATH
it can update these import packages
go run/build/install outside $GOPATH
there's now any new files in $GOPATH src/pkg/bin folder when I working on a project, except this package manager
I can define dependency packages for a project like package.json file for node.js
Is there a go package manager like that?
Edit:
Running this with go command is not required.
Not possible with the current go tooling, but looks like we might get it in go 1.12 or bit later.
Proposal accepted:
cmd/go: modify the Go toolchain to work without GOPATH