compiling wasm package using tinygo failed due to unsupported library

[Rizary]

I try to compile the wasm package using tinygo and get an error that I describe here.

Moreover, I found this list of package that is supported by tinygo here.

When looking at mapstructure, I only found 2 files that using it, 0chain/gosdk/zboxcore/fileref/list.go and 0chain/gosdk/zboxcore/fileref/refpath.go.

There might be another error that is related it so I may open this issue until wasm package is successfully compiled with tinygo.

any thought, @cnlangzi @moldis @mallochine?

[cnlangzi]

It is fine to remove reflect package from gosdk. It seems is only used on validator. I am going to refactor ReferencePath parts.

[mallochine]

I wrote this back in June to Saswata. I tried for a couple hours to get tinygo working because it had a nice compilation feature to automatically translate functions so we don't have wrapper code.

I found it was a deadend because tinygo does not support network calls. Did you find something has changed in the past 4 months? Do they support network calls now?

the biggest reason why all these gosdk functions are not immediately accessible is -- there is no "automatic" translation of a golang function to a "JS function" that can be called.
for example, if there was func HelloWorld() , you need to explicitly write the wrapper golang code that JS can use to call "HelloWorld".
the tinygo compiler has feature: //export HelloWorld that automatically creates that wrapper code, so it becomes a lot simpler to export those libraries. However! tinygo is a deadend for our approach because tinygo does not support network calls. I already have this 20 line program proving network calls to get tinygo working (At Ryan Stewart's request). Tinygo is deadend and cannot be used (edited)

[mallochine]

already have this 20 line program proving network calls to get tinygo working (At Ryan Stewart's request). Tinygo is deadend and cannot be used (edited)

[mallochine]

Here was the 20 line program:

package main

import "net/http"

// Generated by curl-to-Go: https://mholt.github.io/curl-to-go

// curl https://www.google.com

func main() {
	resp, err := http.Get("https://www.google.com")
	if err != nil {
		// handle err
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()
}

Try compiling with: "tinygo build -o tinygo.wasm -target wasm ./tinygo.go"

/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.16/libexec/src/net/pipe.go:156:16: ErrDeadlineExceeded not declared by package os

while compiling with the normal wasm does work