golangcilint unable to load external deps

[mishudark]

Bazel version: 0.28.0
Bazel-tools: commit 7c3b97b8e8bf4699353fcdf7437c195e2cdcef3b - Jul 2019

Context: I'm able to run and test the actual project with bazel, but linter seems to not use the external deps defined on WORKSPACE

WORKSPACE:

http_archive(
    name = "com_github_atlassian_bazel_tools",
    strip_prefix = "bazel-tools-6fbc36c639a8f376182bb0057dd557eb2440d4ed",
    urls = ["https://github.com/atlassian/bazel-tools/archive/6fbc36c639a8f376182bb0057dd557eb2440d4ed.zip"],
    sha256 = "544495c6e9b509191c616694ec734a1b7101c85726bd5916a8713225658e33ab"
)

load("@com_github_atlassian_bazel_tools//golangcilint:deps.bzl", "golangcilint_dependencies")
golangcilint_dependencies()

go_repository(
    name = "com_google_firebase_go",
    importpath = "firebase.google.com/go",
    sum = "h1:A/KMJdcsLq1/miil8tONEbLBmUgOWpdVCLAxMHq0Xbw=",
    version = "v3.8.1+incompatible",
)

go_repository(
    name = "in_gopkg_check_v1",
    importpath = "gopkg.in/check.v1",
    sum = "h1:yhCVgyC4o1eVCa2tZl7eS0r+SDo693bJlVdllGtEeKM=",
    version = "v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405",
)

go_repository(
    name = "in_gopkg_fsnotify_v1",
    importpath = "gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1",
    sum = "h1:xOHLXZwVvI9hhs+cLKq5+I5onOuwQLhQwiu63xxlHs4=",
    version = "v1.4.7",
)

go_repository(
    name = "in_gopkg_tomb_v1",
    importpath = "gopkg.in/tomb.v1",
    sum = "h1:uRGJdciOHaEIrze2W8Q3AKkepLTh2hOroT7a+7czfdQ=",
    version = "v1.0.0-20141024135613-dd632973f1e7",
)

go_repository(
    name = "in_gopkg_yaml_v2",
    importpath = "gopkg.in/yaml.v2",
    sum = "h1:mUhvW9EsL+naU5Q3cakzfE91YhliOondGd6ZrsDBHQE=",
    version = "v2.2.1",
)

go_repository(
    name = "io_opencensus_go",
    importpath = "go.opencensus.io",
    sum = "h1:mU6zScU4U1YAFPHEHYk+3JC4SY7JxgkqS10ZOSyksNg=",
    version = "v0.21.0",
)

go_repository(
    name = "io_upper_db_v3",
    importpath = "upper.io/db.v3",
    sum = "h1:3MJSnJQ+NMxBxuNwO+gOKFiugwv+f61LbyuZYSPzoi4=",
    version = "v3.5.7+incompatible",
)
...

BUILD.bazel

golangcilint(
    name = "golangcilint",
    paths = [
        "packages/api/pkg/...",
    ],
    prefix = "github.com/my-private-repo/some-app",
)

error:

INFO: Analyzed target //:golangcilint (0 packages loaded, 0 targets configured).
INFO: Found 1 target...
Target //:golangcilint up-to-date:
  bazel-bin/golangcilint.bash
INFO: Elapsed time: 0.150s, Critical Path: 0.00s
INFO: 0 processes.
INFO: Build completed successfully, 1 total action
INFO: Build completed successfully, 1 total action
ERRO Running error: context loading failed: failed to load program with go/packages: go [list -e -json -compiled -test=true -export=false -deps=true -find=false -- ./packages/api/pkg/...]: exit status 1: go build github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes/timestamp: no Go files in
go build github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes/empty: no Go files in
go build github.com/golang/protobuf/proto: no Go files in
go build google.golang.org/grpc: no Go files in
go build google.golang.org/grpc/codes: no Go files in
go build google.golang.org/grpc/status: no Go files in
go build github.com/mishudark/errors: no Go files in
go build github.com/go-redis/redis: no Go files in
go build firebase.google.com/go: no Go files in
go build firebase.google.com/go/messaging: no Go files in
go build github.com/go-ozzo/ozzo-validation: no Go files in
go build upper.io/db.v3/lib/sqlbuilder: no Go files in
go build google.golang.org/api/option: no Go files in
go build github.com/imdario/mergo: no Go files in
go build upper.io/db.v3: no Go files in
go build github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/jwk: no Go files in
go build github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/jws: no Go files in
go build google.golang.org/grpc/metadata: no Go files in

[ash2k]

golangcilint rules in this repo only support vendored dependencies, not dependencies brought in via bazel. I recommend you to use https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/blob/master/go/nogo.rst instead. It is also incremental and cacheable, unlike golangcilint rules.

p.s. I should probably add a deprecation warning to the description.