Go generate

[retgits]

as mentioned in #310

What problem does this solve?

Right now anyone creating a new module has to start from scratch, probably copy/pasting/chopping the guts from an existing module. This is tedious, error-prone, and not a great use of people's time.

How does it work?

The package generator contains generates for empty widgets (stubs). Each generator is named after the type of widget it generate, so textwidget.go will generate the skeleton for a new TextWidget using the textwidget.tpl template. Since you can't dynamically add any arguments to go generate, the TextWidget generator needs one environment variable, called WTF_WIDGET_NAME, which will be the name of the TextWidget it generates. If the variable hasn't been set, the generator will use NewTextWidget. As an example, on macOS the command can be run as WTF_WIDGET_NAME=MySuperAwesomeWidget go generate -run=text, which will generate a new module based on the TextWidget generator in the folder mysuperawesomewidget

[senorprogrammer]

This is awesome, and I would love to merge this in. Before that though, I'm getting the following error when I follow the directions above:

~/go/src/github.com/wtfutil/wtf retgits-go-generate 8s
❯ WTF_WIDGET_NAME=MySuperAwesomeWidget go generate text
can't load package: package text: no Go files in /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.11.1/libexec/src/text

Suggestions?

[retgits]

Totally my bad, sorry. The command should be WTF_WIDGET_NAME=MySuperAwesomeWidget go generate -run=text. I'll update the text so it reflects the correct command.

[senorprogrammer]

Thanks!

[retgits]

All updates should be in place now 😄