Error: Could not find source directory

[sztanpet]

I get the following error while trying to run ffjson for a file

Error: error=Could not find source directory: GOPATH=["/home/sztanpet/go/gocode"] REL="/home/sztanpet/go/destinyggchat" path="":

must REL be a relative path or something?

[pquerna]

Is your code inside your GOPATH? From the error message it looks like destinyggchat is outside the GOPATH?

Because of how ffjson works, your code must be inside your GOPATH, so that it can compile your project to export the structure.

[sztanpet]

indeed it is outside GOPATH

[sztanpet]

symlinked it into the GOPATH but it still says

Error: error=Could not find source directory: GOPATH=["/home/sztanpet/go/gocode"] REL="/home/sztanpet/go/gocode/destinyggchat" path="":

[pquerna]

It needs to be in a correct part of the GOPATH, under the src directory:

https://golang.org/doc/code.html#Workspaces

So if your project is called destinyggchat, your source code goes in $GOPATH/src/github.com/destinygg/chat

[sztanpet]

Thank you, works perfectly now

May I ask for this information to be made more clear in the docs?

[pquerna]

Yeah, not sure how to best document this -- ffjson just depends on import paths and $GOPATH being setup the 'standard' way....