What does
go list -f '{{ .EmbedFiles }}'
display?
On Monday, 5 July 2021 at 06:28:54 UTC+1 tjgur...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have been testing the (relatively) new go:embed feature for a few days
> and I came across this situation which I wasn't quite sure what was causing
> it so I thought asking here would help.
>
> Consider the following code:
>
> ```golang
> package main
>
> import (
> "embed"
> "fmt"
> "log"
> "net/http"
> )
>
> //go:embed files/static
> var static embed.FS
>
> func main() {
> http.Handle("/static/", http.StripPrefix("/static/",
> http.FileServer(http.FS(static))))
> log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8000", nil))
> }
>
> ```
>
> Now the files in directory files/static are very much accessible but the
> issue I seem to have is that it was accessible under the url
> /static/files/static/filename instead of just being accessible through
> /static/filename where filename exists inside the directory files/static/
>
> I tried looking up some examples online and it seems that I have to use
> the fs.FS and fs.Sub and only expose (not sure if this is correct
> terminology) the new fs.Sub which would mitigate the issue I was having.
>
> My question is about the reason why the Go team went with this
> implementation? Because in the above program I wasn't able to access the
> files in files/ directory even though there were files in it and was only
> able to access files inside the files/static files directory. So there
> doesn't seem to be a point in this implementation unless I'm missing
> something, and I'm sure its the latter case haha. If anyone knows about why
> they went with this implementation, I would be very grateful.
>
> Best wishes
> Taj
>
>
>
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