// Copyright 2010 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. /* Vet examines Go source code and reports suspicious constructs, such as Printf calls whose arguments do not align with the format string. Vet uses heuristics that do not guarantee all reports are genuine problems, but it can find errors not caught by the compilers. It can be invoked three ways: By package, from the go tool: go vet package/path/name vets the package whose path is provided. By files: go tool vet source/directory/*.go vets the files named, all of which must be in the same package. By directory: go tool vet source/directory recursively descends the directory, vetting each package it finds. Vet's exit code is 2 for erroneous invocation of the tool, 1 if a problem was reported, and 0 otherwise. Note that the tool does not check every possible problem and depends on unreliable heuristics so it should be used as guidance only, not as a firm indicator of program correctness. By default the -all flag is set so all checks are performed. If any flags are explicitly set to true, only those tests are run. Conversely, if any flag is explicitly set to false, only those tests are disabled. Thus -printf=true runs the printf check, -printf=false runs all checks except the printf check. Available checks: Assembly declarations Flag: -asmdecl Mismatches between assembly files and Go function declarations. Useless assignments Flag: -assign Check for useless assignments. Atomic mistakes Flag: -atomic Common mistaken usages of the sync/atomic package. Boolean conditions Flag: -bool Mistakes involving boolean operators. Build tags Flag: -buildtags Badly formed or misplaced +build tags. Invalid uses of cgo Flag: -cgocall Detect some violations of the cgo pointer passing rules. Unkeyed composite literals Flag: -composites Composite struct literals that do not use the field-keyed syntax. Copying locks Flag: -copylocks Locks that are erroneously passed by value. Tests, benchmarks and documentation examples Flag: -tests Mistakes involving tests including functions with incorrect names or signatures and example tests that document identifiers not in the package. Failure to call the cancelation function returned by context.WithCancel. Flag: -lostcancel The cancelation function returned by context.WithCancel, WithTimeout, and WithDeadline must be called or the new context will remain live until its parent context is cancelled. (The background context is never cancelled.) Methods Flag: -methods Non-standard signatures for methods with familiar names, including: Format GobEncode GobDecode MarshalJSON MarshalXML Peek ReadByte ReadFrom ReadRune Scan Seek UnmarshalJSON UnreadByte UnreadRune WriteByte WriteTo Nil function comparison Flag: -nilfunc Comparisons between functions and nil. Printf family Flag: -printf Suspicious calls to functions in the Printf family, including any functions with these names, disregarding case: Print Printf Println Fprint Fprintf Fprintln Sprint Sprintf Sprintln Error Errorf Fatal Fatalf Log Logf Panic Panicf Panicln The -printfuncs flag can be used to redefine this list. If the function name ends with an 'f', the function is assumed to take a format descriptor string in the manner of fmt.Printf. If not, vet complains about arguments that look like format descriptor strings. It also checks for errors such as using a Writer as the first argument of Printf. Struct tags Range loop variables Flag: -rangeloops Incorrect uses of range loop variables in closures. Shadowed variables Flag: -shadow=false (experimental; must be set explicitly) Variables that may have been unintentionally shadowed. Shifts Flag: -shift Shifts equal to or longer than the variable's length. Flag: -structtags Struct tags that do not follow the format understood by reflect.StructTag.Get. Well-known encoding struct tags (json, xml) used with unexported fields. Unreachable code Flag: -unreachable Unreachable code. Misuse of unsafe Pointers Flag: -unsafeptr Likely incorrect uses of unsafe.Pointer to convert integers to pointers. A conversion from uintptr to unsafe.Pointer is invalid if it implies that there is a uintptr-typed word in memory that holds a pointer value, because that word will be invisible to stack copying and to the garbage collector. Unused result of certain function calls Flag: -unusedresult Calls to well-known functions and methods that return a value that is discarded. By default, this includes functions like fmt.Errorf and fmt.Sprintf and methods like String and Error. The flags -unusedfuncs and -unusedstringmethods control the set. Other flags These flags configure the behavior of vet: -all (default true) Enable all non-experimental checks. -v Verbose mode -printfuncs A comma-separated list of print-like function names to supplement the standard list. For more information, see the discussion of the -printf flag. -shadowstrict Whether to be strict about shadowing; can be noisy. */ package main