testing: Reuse of exported var name when using . import panics

[anacrolix]

In examples_test.go:

package torrent_test
import torrent "."

In the the rest of the go files in the directory:

package torrent

anacrolix@Matts-MBP:~/gopath/src/github.com/anacrolix/torrent$ go test .
2015/05/24 21:27:41 expvar.go:254: Reuse of exported var name: unusedDownloadedChunksCount
panic: Reuse of exported var name: unusedDownloadedChunksCount

goroutine 1 [running]:
log.Panicln(0xc20804bee8, 0x2, 0x2)
/Users/anacrolix/src/go/src/log/log.go:334 +0xc4
expvar.Publish(0x46139d0, 0x1b, 0x4979770, 0xc20800b4b0)
/Users/anacrolix/src/go/src/expvar/expvar.go:254 +0x236
expvar.NewInt(0x46139d0, 0x1b, 0x4831ec8)
/Users/anacrolix/src/go/src/expvar/expvar.go:272 +0x78
_/Users/anacrolix/gopath/src/github.com/anacrolix/torrent.init()
/Users/anacrolix/gopath/src/github.com/anacrolix/torrent/client.go:46 +0x112
github.com/anacrolix/torrent_test.init()
/Users/anacrolix/gopath/src/github.com/anacrolix/torrent/example_test.go:18 +0x47
main.init()
github.com/anacrolix/torrent/_test/_testmain.go:102 +0x56

The "." import seems to cause expvar to init those variables twice?

[minux]

It's working as intended.

The generated main package will import "torrent",
but the test file imports the same package under
a different import path ("."), as Go uses import
paths to differentiate packages, one package imported
under two import paths will be treated as two different
packages and thus it's init will be called twice.

That's also the reason why symlinks are not allowed
in GOPATH.

Do not use "." to import a package in a test.

A simple example:
// t.go
package t

var A int

func init() {
println("init called")
}

// t_test.go
package t_test

import (
t "."
"testing"
)

var _ = t.A

func TestA(t *testing.T) {}

$ go test -v
init called
init called
=== RUN TestA
--- PASS: TestA (0.00s)
PASS
ok t 0.002s

[anacrolix]

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/strings/search_test.go#L9