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go-pry

go-pry - an interactive REPL for Go that allows you to drop into your code at any point.

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go-pry

Example

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Usage

Install go-pry

go get github.com/d4l3k/go-pry
go install -i github.com/d4l3k/go-pry

Add the pry statement to the code

package main

import "github.com/d4l3k/go-pry/pry"

func main() {
  a := 1
  pry.Pry()
}

Run the code as you would normally with the go command. go-pry is just a wrapper.

# Run
go-pry run readme.go

If you want completions to work properly, also install gocode if it is not installed in your system

go get -u github.com/nsf/gocode

How does it work?

go-pry is built using a combination of meta programming as well as a massive amount of reflection. When you invoke the go-pry command it looks at the Go files in the mentioned directories (or the current in cases such as go-pry build) and processes them. Since Go is a compiled language there's no way to dynamically get in scope variables, and even if there was, unused imports would be automatically removed for optimization purposes. Thus, go-pry has to find every instance of pry.Pry() and inject a large blob of code that contains references to all in scope variables and functions as well as those of the imported packages. When doing this it makes a copy of your file to .<filename>.gopry and modifies the <filename>.go then passes the command arguments to the standard go command. Once the command exits, it restores the files.

If the program unexpectedly fails there is a custom command go-pry restore [files] that will move the files back. An alternative is to just remove the pry.Apply(...) line.

Inspiration

go-pry is greatly inspired by Pry REPL for Ruby.

License

go-pry is licensed under the MIT license.

Made by Tristan Rice.

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