move the core logic of mockgen out of main
package to make mockgen importable #609
Description
Hi team.
What
It would be nice if the core logic of mockgen is placed in some package other than main
. This makes mockgen importable.
main
package should contain only CLI-related processes such as option parsing.
Why
Users can import mockgen features. (In Go, we cannot import main
package.)
This allows users
- to customize mockgen to meet their own requirements.
- to generate mock files for gomock by their own tool.
...etc
For example, I am developing a tool, called gomockhandler
, to manage mocks of gomock.
https://github.com/sanposhiho/gomockhandler
Users need to install mockgen to use gomockhandler and gomockhandler calls mockgen through exec.Command
.
https://github.com/sanposhiho/gomockhandler/blob/master/internal/mockgen/sourcemode/runner.go#L68
However, unexpected behaviors may occur due to differences in mockgen behavior depending on which mockgen the user has installed.
Ideally, it would be nice to be able to generate mocks without using user-installed mockgen and we can achieve that if we can import mockgen.