Compile revel project without revel command-cli

[mageddo]

Is possible build and package revel project only with the go command?

[jeevatkm]

No, please use revel build or revel package.

[mageddo]

@jeevatkm Ok, the problem is that this build generate some files that are not compiled, is there anyway of compile everything inside the binary file?

[jeevatkm]

I couldn't understand.

build generate some files that are not compiled

Can you please explain in detail, what is the issue you're facing?

[mageddo]

Of course, for example the chat

When I run

$ revel build github.com/revel/samples/chat /tmp/chat-build prod

It generates the folow tree. This way my source code is exposed to the final user, I want that all files be compiled to the binary and no one source file be exposed, do you understand?

.
├── chat
├── run.bat
├── run.sh
└── src
    └── github.com
        └── revel
            ├── modules
            │   ├── static
            │   │   └── app
            │   │       └── controllers
            │   │           └── static.go
            │   └── testrunner
            │       ├── app
            │       │   ├── controllers
            │       │   │   └── testrunner.go
            │       │   ├── plugin.go
            │       │   └── views
            │       │       └── TestRunner
            │       │           ├── FailureDetail.html
            │       │           ├── Index.html
            │       │           └── SuiteResult.html
            │       ├── conf
            │       │   └── routes
            │       └── public
            │           ├── css
            │           │   ├── bootstrap.min.css
            │           │   └── github.css
            │           ├── images
            │           │   └── favicon.png
            │           └── js
            │               ├── bootstrap.min.js
            │               ├── highlight.pack.js
            │               └── jquery-1.9.1.min.js
            ├── revel
            │   ├── conf
            │   │   └── mime-types.conf
            │   └── templates
            │       └── errors
            │           ├── 403.html
            │           ├── 403.json
            │           ├── 403.txt
            │           ├── 403.xml
            │           ├── 404-dev.html
            │           ├── 404.html
            │           ├── 404.json
            │           ├── 404.txt
            │           ├── 404.xml
            │           ├── 405.html
            │           ├── 405.json
            │           ├── 405.txt
            │           ├── 405.xml
            │           ├── 500-dev.html
            │           ├── 500.html
            │           ├── 500.json
            │           ├── 500.txt
            │           └── 500.xml
            └── samples
                └── chat
                    ├── app
                    │   ├── chatroom
                    │   │   └── chatroom.go
                    │   ├── controllers
                    │   │   ├── app.go
                    │   │   ├── longpolling.go
                    │   │   ├── refresh.go
                    │   │   └── websocket.go
                    │   ├── routes
                    │   │   └── routes.go
                    │   ├── tmp
                    │   │   └── main.go
                    │   └── views
                    │       ├── Application
                    │       │   └── Index.html
                    │       ├── footer.html
                    │       ├── header.html
                    │       ├── LongPolling
                    │       │   └── Room.html
                    │       ├── Refresh
                    │       │   └── Room.html
                    │       └── WebSocket
                    │           └── Room.html
                    ├── conf
                    │   ├── app.conf
                    │   └── routes
                    ├── public
                    │   ├── images
                    │   │   └── favicon.png
                    │   ├── javascripts
                    │   │   ├── jquery-1.5.min.js
                    │   │   ├── jquery.scrollTo-min.js
                    │   │   └── templating.js
                    │   └── stylesheets
                    │       └── main.css
                    └── tests
                        └── apptest.go

[jeevatkm]

okay, I get it. So you want to exclude the src from archive correct?

[mageddo]

yes.. but I can't because it causes error for today

[mageddo]

The static files like .css, .html and .json can be on the src directory, not matter, the problem are only with the .go files, I can not leave they there

[jeevatkm]

I understand. Actually, exclude feature is currently not exists.

Can you please create an issue here with feature description for revel package command?

[mageddo]

Of course @jeevatkm, thanks

[ptman]

In the meantime, I do something like this to filter the files I don't want out from my archives:

gunzip < project.tar.gz | tar --wildcards --delete '*.go' src/$package/tests src/$package/doc | gzip > project-small.tar.gz

[jeevatkm]

@mageddo please create an issue at revel/cmd with detailed description for package command.

I'm closing this one.

[mageddo]

@jeevatkm I've created the issue

[mageddo]

Many thanks @ptman, so are the .go files not needed on this folder? They are generated only by convection?

[ptman]

@mageddo well, we've had a production service running for almost a year running in a docker container without those .go files so I'm fairly confident that it works. They are just used when compiling the binary. I assume the archive contains the files because all of app/ is just copied there.

[mageddo]

@ptman Good, your command will be useful while the feature request is not developed.

[brendensoares]

Just a note, you can delete most of what is included in archives (as alluded to here). The only files that are needed are used at runtime (go source files are not used at runtime.

[mageddo]

@brendensoares Good pointer. Later I understood it, at principle I think that the are used