We’re continuing to use Google App Engine to host our sign up page (we’ll discuss why in another post) which produced a common problem during our local builds: appengine-specific code would fail when using the standard Go build tools. Because our AppEngine and non-AppEngine code was similar, we wanted to keep the code-base from being fragmented. Enter, Build Constraints.
By adding a simple comment to the top of a file, we can tell both the standard Go tools and the goapp tools which files they may ignore. In our case, we needed to provide access to the AppEngine context but wanted builds to work using both tools:
// build appengine
The above line is placed at the top of our app-engine specific go source file making both the standard Go tools and goapp tools happy.
> GOPATH=~/go-launch/ go test
PASS
ok github.com/turretIO/turret-io-go/tests 3.875s
> ~/go_appengine/goapp test
PASS
ok github.com/turretIO/turret-io-go/tests 4.439s
In addition to the appengine Build Constraint, the tools also recognize the “windows” flag that allows Windows-specific files to ignored or explicitly built.
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