Plugin validator fails unless release pipeline is run with go 1.21

[helenosheaa]

When running the release pipeline on the community grafana-flightsql-datasource plugin I ran into the following error:

go: errors parsing go.mod:
/Users/user/influx/plugin-validator/go.mod:3: invalid go version '1.21.8': must match format 1.23
/Users/user/influx/plugin-validator/go.mod:5: unknown directive: toolchain

I updated the release pipeline from go 1.20 to go 1.21 to fix the problem.

It may be worth calling out on your documentation that this is now a requirement of running the plugin validator.

[tolzhabayev]

Hey @helenosheaa,
we are using the version in go.mod file to indicate the required version. We will add a note to the doc to check out the go.mod file as it is the source of truth.

[Ukochka]

unknown directive: toolchain is expected behaviour, because version 1.20 doesn’t have that supported. To be able to run plugin validator you have to use go version 1.21.1. This information can be found at go.mod