A related issue: Now that I can run go test and it's running, how do I define the flag. Currently, I define it in main(), and also the flag.Parse() is in main(). But main() is not run in go test, so I tried putting flag.BoolVar() and flag.Parse() in an init() function, but that doesn''t work either.
How do I test the operations of the flag package when running go test? On Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 3:45:10 PM UTC-4 Robert Solomon wrote: > Looks like I didn't copy everything I have to the playground. But I do > have the correct imports and the top statement, package main. > > Thank you for answering, that's working. > > --rob solomon > > > On Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 11:24:11 AM UTC-4 Brian Candler wrote: > >> Your code is incomplete (it's missing all the imports), and "go test" >> doesn't run your main() function anyway, so it's not going to parse the >> flags. >> >> But otherwise I think it would be something like this: (single dash, >> -args not --args) >> >> go test . -v -args - -dots >> >> https://go.dev/play/p/HFJBO1j54iE >> >> On Saturday, 6 May 2023 at 14:02:35 UTC+1 Robert Solomon wrote: >> >>> >>> I have a routine that I want to test, that I have to pass a flag into >>> this test. This is on Win10 using Go 1.20.4. This code is here: >>> https://go.dev/play/p/p-YeGDk1KaM >>> >>> I want to pass a flag I call dots into the test code for this function. >>> I tried from within the correct directory >>> >>> go test --args -dots >>> or >>> go test . --args -dots >>> >>> Or from the top of my source tree where the go.mod file is : >>> >>> go test .\detox --args -dots >>> go test .\detox\... --args -dots >>> >>> I get an error message saying: >>> >>> flag provided but not defined: -dots. >>> >>> But that flag does show up when I run the program using the -h flag, and >>> it works when not in go test mode. >>> The full pgm is in the link above. >>> >>> What am I missing? >>> >>> --rob solomon >>> >>> PS: a stackoverflow question that's similar to this, from 2014, does not >>> work for me. >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/a4058ec5-2559-4763-b104-5b8fbeb00a89n%40googlegroups.com.
