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* Build: use golangci-lint as a make command * Since gometalinter was deprecated in favor of golangci-lint so it was replaced by it. Responsibilities held by the gometalinter was moved to golangci-lint * There was some changes in implementation (that was also mentioned in the code comment) between the tools, which uncovered couple errors in the code. Those issues were either solved or disabled by the inline comments * Introduce the golangci-lint config, to make their configuration more manageable * Build: replace backend-lint.sh script with make
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Backend style guide
Grafanas backend has been developed for a long time with a mix of code styles.
This style guide is a guide for how we want to write Go code in the future. Generally, we want to follow the style guides used in Go Code Review Comments and Peter Bourgon's Go: Best Practices for Production Environments
Linting and formatting
We enforce strict gofmt formating and use some linters on our codebase. You can lint the codebase with <akefile -
$ make lint-go
We use revive as a go linter, and do enforce our custom config for it.
The end goal is to follow the golint. And the approuch for reachin that goal is to lint all parts of the codebase that we are currently working on and enable stricter linting for more areas as we go.
Testing
We use GoConvey for BDD/scenario based testing. Which we think is useful for testing certain chain or interactions. Ex https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/pkg/services/auth/auth_token_test.go
We value clean & readable code that is loosely coupled and covered by unit tests. This makes it easier to collaborate and maintain the code. In the sqlstore package we do database operations in tests and while some might say that's not suited for unit tests. We think they are fast enough and provide a lot of value.
For new tests its preferred to use standard library testing.
Mocks/Stubs
As a general rule of thumb we try to override/replace functions/methods when mocks/stubs are needed. One common task is the need of overriding time (time.Now()). See usage of getTime variable in code and in test as an example.
When you need to stub/mock an interface you can implement a struct that allows you to override methods on a test-by-test basis. See stub and example usage.