From f154da9e12608589e8d5f0508f908a0c3e88a1bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tianon Gravi
-This workspace contains three repositories (
+A typical workspace would contain many source repositories containing many
+packages and commands. Most Go programmers keep all their Go source code
+and dependencies in a single workspace.
@@ -277,29 +275,29 @@ Let's write a library and use it from the
Again, the first step is to choose a package path (we'll use
-
-Next, create a file named
bin/
- streak # command executable
- todo # command executable
+ hello # command executable
+ outyet # command executable
pkg/
linux_amd64/
- code.google.com/p/goauth2/
- oauth.a # package object
- github.com/nf/todo/
- task.a # package object
+ github.com/golang/example/
+ stringutil.a # package object
src/
- code.google.com/p/goauth2/
- .hg/ # mercurial repository metadata
- oauth/
- oauth.go # package source
- oauth_test.go # test source
- github.com/nf/
- streak/
- .git/ # git repository metadata
- oauth.go # command source
- streak.go # command source
- todo/
- .git/ # git repository metadata
- task/
- task.go # package source
- todo.go # command source
+ github.com/golang/example/
+ .git/ # Git repository metadata
+ hello/
+ hello.go # command source
+ outyet/
+ main.go # command source
+ main_test.go # test source
+ stringutil/
+ reverse.go # package source
+ reverse_test.go # test source
goauth2
,
-streak
, and todo
) comprising two commands
-(streak
and todo
) and two libraries
-(oauth
and task
).
+This workspace contains one repository (example
)
+comprising two commands (hello
and outyet
)
+and one library (stringutil
).
+hello
program.
github.com/user/newmath
) and create the package directory:
+github.com/user/stringutil
) and create the package directory:
-$ mkdir $GOPATH/src/github.com/user/newmath
+$ mkdir $GOPATH/src/github.com/user/stringutil
sqrt.go
in that directory with the
+Next, create a file named reverse.go
in that directory with the
following contents.
-// Package newmath is a trivial example package.
-package newmath
-
-// Sqrt returns an approximation to the square root of x.
-func Sqrt(x float64) float64 {
- z := 1.0
- for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ {
- z -= (z*z - x) / (2 * z)
+// Package stringutil contains utility functions for working with strings.
+package stringutil
+
+// Reverse returns its argument string reversed rune-wise left to right.
+func Reverse(s string) string {
+ r := []rune(s)
+ for i, j := 0, len(r)-1; i < len(r)/2; i, j = i+1, j-1 {
+ r[i], r[j] = r[j], r[i]
}
- return z
+ return string(r)
}
@@ -308,7 +306,7 @@ Now, test that the package compiles with go build
:
-$ go build github.com/user/newmath +$ go build github.com/user/stringutil
@@ -326,7 +324,7 @@ directory of the workspace.
-After confirming that the newmath
package builds,
+After confirming that the stringutil
package builds,
modify your original hello.go
(which is in
$GOPATH/src/github.com/user/hello
) to use it:
Whenever the go
tool installs a package or binary, it also
-installs whatever dependencies it has. So when you install the hello
-program
+installs whatever dependencies it has.
+So when you install the hello
program
@@ -356,16 +354,16 @@ $ go install github.com/user/hello
-the newmath
package will be installed as well, automatically.
+the stringutil
package will be installed as well, automatically.
-Running the new version of the program, you should see some numerical output: +Running the new version of the program, you should see a new, reversed message:
$ hello -Hello, world. Sqrt(2) = 1.414213562373095 +Hello, Go!
@@ -374,22 +372,22 @@ After the steps above, your workspace should look like this:
bin/ - hello # command executable + hello # command executable pkg/ - linux_amd64/ # this will reflect your OS and architecture + linux_amd64/ # this will reflect your OS and architecture github.com/user/ - newmath.a # package object + stringutil.a # package object src/ github.com/user/ hello/ - hello.go # command source - newmath/ - sqrt.go # package source + hello.go # command source + stringutil/ + reverse.go # package source
-Note that go install
placed the newmath.a
object in a
-directory inside pkg/linux_amd64
that mirrors its source
+Note that go install
placed the stringutil.a
object
+in a directory inside pkg/linux_amd64
that mirrors its source
directory.
This is so that future invocations of the go
tool can find the
package object and avoid recompiling the package unnecessarily.
@@ -457,20 +455,29 @@ if the function calls a failure function such as t.Error
or
-Add a test to the newmath
package by creating the file
-$GOPATH/src/github.com/user/newmath/sqrt_test.go
containing the
-following Go code.
+Add a test to the stringutil
package by creating the file
+$GOPATH/src/github.com/user/stringutil/reverse_test.go
containing
+the following Go code.
-package newmath +package stringutil import "testing" -func TestSqrt(t *testing.T) { - const in, out = 4, 2 - if x := Sqrt(in); x != out { - t.Errorf("Sqrt(%v) = %v, want %v", in, x, out) +func TestReverse(t *testing.T) { + cases := []struct { + in, want string + }{ + {"Hello, world", "dlrow ,olleH"}, + {"Hello, 世界", "界世 ,olleH"}, + {"", ""}, + } + for _, c := range cases { + got := Reverse(c.in) + if got != c.want { + t.Errorf("Reverse(%q) == %q, want %q", c.in, got, c.want) + } } }@@ -480,8 +487,8 @@ Then run the test with
go test
:
-$ go test github.com/user/newmath -ok github.com/user/newmath 0.165s +$ go test github.com/user/stringutil +ok github.com/user/stringutil 0.165s
@@ -491,7 +498,7 @@ directory, you can omit the package path:
$ go test -ok github.com/user/newmath 0.165s +ok github.com/user/stringutil 0.165s
@@ -507,16 +514,16 @@ An import path can describe how to obtain the package source code using a
revision control system such as Git or Mercurial. The go
tool uses
this property to automatically fetch packages from remote repositories.
For instance, the examples described in this document are also kept in a
-Mercurial repository hosted at Google Code,
-code.google.com/p/go.example
.
+Git repository hosted at GitHub
+github.com/golang/example
.
If you include the repository URL in the package's import path,
go get
will fetch, build, and install it automatically:
-$ go get code.google.com/p/go.example/hello +$ go get github.com/golang/example/hello $ $GOPATH/bin/hello -Hello, world. Sqrt(2) = 1.414213562373095 +Hello, Go examples!
@@ -533,43 +540,45 @@ tree should now look like this:
bin/ - hello # command executable + hello # command executable pkg/ linux_amd64/ - code.google.com/p/go.example/ - newmath.a # package object + github.com/golang/example/ + stringutil.a # package object github.com/user/ - newmath.a # package object + stringutil.a # package object src/ - code.google.com/p/go.example/ + github.com/golang/example/ + .git/ # Git repository metadata hello/ - hello.go # command source - newmath/ - sqrt.go # package source - sqrt_test.go # test source + hello.go # command source + stringutil/ + reverse.go # package source + reverse_test.go # test source github.com/user/ hello/ - hello.go # command source - newmath/ - sqrt.go # package source - sqrt_test.go # test source + hello.go # command source + stringutil/ + reverse.go # package source + reverse_test.go # test source
-The hello
command hosted at Google Code depends on the
-newmath
package within the same repository. The imports in
-hello.go
file use the same import path convention, so the go
-get
command is able to locate and install the dependent package, too.
+The hello
command hosted at GitHub depends on the
+stringutil
package within the same repository. The imports in
+hello.go
file use the same import path convention, so the
+go get
command is able to locate and install the dependent
+package, too.
-import "code.google.com/p/go.example/newmath" +import "github.com/golang/example/stringutil"
This convention is the easiest way to make your Go packages available for others to use. -The Go Wiki +The Go Wiki and godoc.org provide lists of external Go projects.
@@ -618,5 +627,5 @@ The official mailing list for discussion of the Go language isReport bugs using the -Go issue tracker. +Go issue tracker.
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