In an ideal case got exported functions it would defer to the original.
Still I think the package might have too many responsibilities if that’s the
case.
> On Aug 4, 2019, at 12:35 AM, Andrey Tcherepanov
> <xnow4fippy...@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>
> what if you need only a subpart of the package to be mocked ?
>
>> On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 5:29:30 PM UTC+3, Robert Engels wrote:
>> That brings up an interesting idea. A ‘package replace’ during compile. So
>> you request that the os package is replaced by osmock etc.
>>
>> This would allow easy general reuse mocking frameworks without changing the
>> stdlib and all user code.
>>
>>> On Aug 1, 2019, at 8:38 AM, kyle...@sezzle.com wrote:
>>>
>>> You'll want to check out `gomock` and `mockgen`. You'll need to write an
>>> interface to be able to mock, so you may need to write a receiver struct to
>>> encapsulate os.Hostname() or whatever you need to mock, then mock your
>>> HostnameGetter (surely a better name than that), maybe?
>>>
>>> type OsClient struct {}
>>>
>>> (o *OsClient) GetHostname() (string, error) { return os.Hostname() }
>>>
>>> type HostnameGetter interface { GetHostname() (string, error)}
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is repo w/ documentation: https://github.com/golang/mock
>>>
>>> And here are a couple other nice introductions:
>>> - https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2017/08/gomock-tutorial/
>>> - https://www.philosophicalhacker.com/post/getting-started-with-gomock/
>>>
>>>> On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 7:09:54 AM UTC-5, Nitish Saboo wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> How can we mock a function in Go like os.Hostname() or os.Getwd() ?
>>>> Any framework or Library that we can use for mocking the function calls ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Nitish
>>>
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