Import from parent/relative path is buggy

[howesteve]

Hello,

I'm using golang idea plugin version 0.10.734, go v1.5.1.

There seems to be a problem when importing a package from the parent folder:

package main

import (
    p ".."
)

func main() {
}

While that is valid code, the "p ".."" line above will be highlighted as error, no symbol lookups on the imported "p" will be available, and all symbols prefixed by the package also will be highlited as error.

Thank you.

[dlsniper]

Hi, while this does look like a bug, I would strongly advise not to use relative imports, especially like that.
On a different note, is the parent directory still part of the GOPATH that the plugin has configured?
Thanks

[howesteve]

Yes, it is inside the GOPATH. What is the problem with a relative imports? It's just to organize internal packages more easily.

[dlsniper]

Thanks for the update, I guess it's a valid bug then.

As for your question, there are two threads on the mailing list which discuss this: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/n9d8RzVnadk/07f9RDlwLsYJ and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/zFVF7W-Y_y0

Especially with the plugin helping out in writing the import paths, it shouldn't too difficult to let the import path take it's full form, even if it feels a bit unnatural if you are coming from other languages. One of the reason is that if someone symlinks the dir that your main is and then decides to do a go build on it that will fail :)

Hope it helps and thanks once again for reporting.

[howesteve]

I'm not really going into the language discussion; I guess that is more for the golang-nuts list then idea-plugin? I think while the language still supports it (and it still does), it shouldn't highlight it as all sorts of errors.

Thanks!

[dlsniper]

Of course, I've just pointed it out because of the language itself. As for the bug, this is still open and once again, thank you for reporting.

[zolotov]

Works fine for me. Please share screenshot of your Settings | Languages & Frameworks | Go | Go Libraries

configuration and tell me the path to the file you're editing.