golang package 是什么意思？一份来自初学者的golang package体验指南

In the most basic terms, A package is nothing but a directory inside your Go workspace containing one or more Go source files, or other Go packages.

Every Go source file belongs to a package. 使用下面的语法声明一个源文件属于一个包

package <packagename>

这行代码需要写在源文件的开头。定义在源文件里面的函数，types,变量都会成为这个包的一部分。

You can choose to export a member defined in your package to outside packages, or keep them private to the same package. Other packages can import and reuse the functions or types that are exported from your package.

让我们看一个例子：

import "fmt"

fmt is a core library package that contains functionalities related to formatting and printing output or reading input from various I/O sources. It exports functions like Println(), Printf(), Scanf() etc, for other packages to reuse.

使用package组织代码有如下好处：

• It reduces naming conflicts. You can have the same function names in different packages. This keeps our function names short and concise.

• It organizes related code together so that it is easier to find the code you want to reuse.

• It speeds up the compilation process by only requiring recompilation of smaller parts of the program that has actually changed. Although we use the fmt package, we don’t need to recompile it every time we change our program.

main package和main函数

Go programs start running in the main package. It is a special package that is used with programs that are meant to be executable.

By convention, Executable programs (the ones with the main package) are called Commands. Others are called simply Packages.

The main() function is a special function that is the entry point of an executable program. Let’s see an example of an executable program in Go -

// Package declaration
package main

// Importing packages
import (
	"fmt"
	"time"
	"math"
    "math/rand"
)

func main() {
	// Finding the Max of two numbers
	fmt.Println(math.Max(73.15, 92.46))
	
	// Calculate the square root of a number
	fmt.Println(math.Sqrt(225))

	// Printing the value of `𝜋`
	fmt.Println(math.Pi)

	// Epoch time in milliseconds
	epoch := time.Now().Unix()
	fmt.Println(epoch)

	// Generating a random integer between 0 to 100
	rand.Seed(epoch)
	fmt.Println(rand.Intn(100))
}

导入包

there are two ways to import packages

// Multiple import statements
import "fmt"
import "time"
import "math"
import "math/rand"

// Factored import statements
import (
	"fmt"
	"time"
	"math"
    "math/rand"
)

Go’s convention is that - the package name is the same as the last element of the import path. For example, the name of the package imported as math/rand is rand. It is imported with path math/rand because It is nested inside the math package as a subdirectory.

导出或者不导出

Anything只要是以大写字母开头的，都是可以导出的，outside a package可见。
不是以大写字母开头的，只能在相同的包名内可见

当你import了一个包，你只能访问它的导出的命名

Creating and managing custom Packages

mdkir packer
cd packer
go mod init github.com/callicoder/packer

目录结构如下图

源码如下
numbers/prime.go

package numbers

import "math"

// Checks if a number is prime or not
func IsPrime(num int) bool {
    for i := 2; i <= int(math.Floor(math.Sqrt(float64(num)))); i++ {
        if num%i == 0 {
            return false
        }
	}
    return num > 1
}

strings/reverse.go

package strings

// Reverses a string
/*
	Since strings in Go are immutable, we first convert the string to a mutable array of runes ([]rune), 
	perform the reverse operation on that, and then re-cast to a string.
*/
func Reverse(s string) string {
	runes := []rune(s)
	reversedRunes := reverseRunes(runes)
	return string(reversedRunes)
}

strings/reverse_runes.go

package strings

// Reverses an array of runes
// This function is not exported (It is only visible inside the `strings` package)
func reverseRunes(r []rune) []rune {
	for i, j := 0, len(r)-1; i < j; i, j = i+1, j-1 {
		r[i], r[j] = r[j], r[i]
	}
	return r
}

//下面用到了在一个包目录下含有另一个包

strings/greeting/texts.go (Nested package)

// Nested Package
package greeting

// Exported
const  (
	WelcomeText = "Hello, World to Golang"
    MorningText = "Good Morning"
	EveningText = "Good Evening"
)

// Not exported (only visible inside the `greeting` package)
var loremIpsumText = `Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, 
sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad 
minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea 
commodo consequat.`

main.go (The main package: entry point of our program)

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	str "strings" // Package Alias

	"github.com/callicoder/packer/numbers"
	"github.com/callicoder/packer/strings"
	"github.com/callicoder/packer/strings/greeting" // Importing a nested package
)

func main() {
	fmt.Println(numbers.IsPrime(19))

	fmt.Println(greeting.WelcomeText)

	fmt.Println(strings.Reverse("callicoder"))

	fmt.Println(str.Count("Go is Awesome. I love Go", "Go"))
}

# Building the Go module
$ go build
The above command will produce an executable binary. Let’s execute the binary file to run the program:

# Running the executable binary
$ ./packer
true
Hello, World to Golang
redocillac
2

Things to note

• Import Paths
• Package Alias
  You can use package alias to resolve conflicts between different packages of the same name, or just to give a short name to the imported package

• Nested Package
  You can nest a package inside another. It’s as simple as creating a subdirectory -

A nested package can be imported similar to a root package. Just provide its path relative to the module’s path github.com/callicoder/packer -

添加第三方包

Adding 3rd party packages to your project is very easy with Go modules. You can just import the package to any of the source files in your project, and the next time you build/run the project, Go automatically downloads it for you (此处存疑，因为我这里没有自动下载)

手动安装

You can use go get command to download 3rd party packages from remote repositories.

$ go get -u github.com/jinzhu/gorm
The above command fetches the gorm package from Github and adds it as a dependency to your go.mod file.

That’s it. You can now import and use the above package in your program like this -

import "github.com/jinzhu/gorm"

Conclusion

That’s all folks! In this article, you learned how to organize Go code into reusable packages, how to import a package, how to export members of a package, how to create custom packages, and how to install third party packages.