go/importer can't find github import referring to internal/ of current module

[Levieux Michel]

Hi guys,

Didn't really know what to put in the title, I have a file hierarchy like the following:

- gest (root of module)

-- cmd

--- gesterate

---- command files (see below)

-- internal

--- callstack

---- internal library files (see below)

-- library files (see below)

in the cmd/gesterate/ folder there is some code that should generate code upon calling go generate (it needs to be installed logically)

in the internal/callstack folder there is an internal library that is used by the library files in the root folder (gest/)

In order to test my code generation tool in cmd/gesterate, I put a //go generate ... pragma in one of my files in gest/, and tried to call go generate on the root folder. I use the go/importer package with the Default importer

It throws me the following error, which I'm having a hard time understanding where it comes from and why it is so:

could not import github.com/mlevieux/gest/internal/callstack (can't find import: "github.com/mlevieux/gest/internal/callstack")

The repo itself is private on github but I'll gladly share pieces of code if needed.

Thx in advance guys!

[mlevi...@gmail.com]

Hi everyone,

In the absence of an answer, I reply here to make this thread go back to top.

For the moment I have worked around my issue by just adding a subdirectory in gest/ (see hierarchy above), and //go:generate'ing on this package. This works here because this sub-package does not import anything except std.

But, even if the problem is more specific than I think or I will never really use the fix, I'm curious as to why I observe the aforementioned behaviour.

If anyone could give some ideas / insights, it'd be great!

Thank you all in advance and please do not hesitate to ask for more precisions! :D