Usage of "go/import"

[mgilbir (Miguel Eduardo Gil Biraud)]

I’m trying to use “go/import” to find all the types in a package without much success.

When I use the example code from a similar StackOverflow answer it all works fine and the output makes sense.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "go/importer"
)

func main() {
    pkg, err := importer.Default().Import("time")
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Printf("error: %s\n", err.Error())
        return
    }
    for _, declName := range pkg.Scope().Names() {
        fmt.Println(declName)
    }
}

But when I change the package time to . or the import path of one of my packages, I get an error message that reads:

error: can't find import: /Users/mgilbir/Projects/go/src/bitbucket.org/mgilbir/importest

To be honest I’m at a loss of ideas of where to look next. What am I missing? How can I get this code working for the current package?

[dfc (Dave Cheney)]

One of the problems with the go importer is it requires the package to be compiled first (this may be an oversimplification of the issue). I know that Alan Donovan and Robert Griesemer are working on improving the importer to be able to work with Go source.