moq generates mocks with internal package imports

[d-lowl]

In some situations, moq generates mocks that try to import internal 3rd party packages. Minimal example below.

example.go

package app

import (
	"context"

	pubsub_api "cloud.google.com/go/pubsub"
)

type IPubSubTopic interface {
	Exists(ctx context.Context) (bool, error)
	Publish(ctx context.Context, msg *pubsub_api.Message) *pubsub_api.PublishResult
}

Here pubsub_api is an explicit alias to the public package.

Generate mock:

moq -out example_mock.go . IPubSubTopic

example_mock.go

// Code generated by moq; DO NOT EDIT.
// github.com/matryer/moq

package app

import (
	"cloud.google.com/go/internal/pubsub"
	"context"
	"sync"
)

// Ensure, that IPubSubTopicMock does implement IPubSubTopic.
// If this is not the case, regenerate this file with moq.
var _ IPubSubTopic = &IPubSubTopicMock{}

But the mock imports the internal pubsub package instead. I couldn't find any way to prevent it.

go version go1.15.6 linux/amd64 moq version: v0.2.3

[sudo-suhas]

The problem is around adding the import for a type alias - googleapis/google-cloud-go@pubsub/v1.15.0/pubsub/message.go#L37.

I have added a test case for the same in #155. For some reason, while parsing the interface method's parameters, the type information has the package as the original package instead of the one where it was aliased:

As it happens, this issue affects github.com/vektra/mockery as well:

moq/pkg/moq/testpackages on  master [$!?] via 🐹 v1.16.5 using ☁️  default/
➜ mockery --dir typealiaspkgimport --name Processor --print
21 Aug 21 15:10 IST INF Starting mockery dry-run=false version=2.9.0
21 Aug 21 15:10 IST INF Walking dry-run=false version=2.9.0
21 Aug 21 15:10 IST INF Generating mock dry-run=false interface=Processor qualified-name=github.com/matryer/moq/pkg/moq/testpackages/typealiaspkgimport version=2.9.0
// Code generated by mockery 2.9.0. DO NOT EDIT.

package mocks

import (
	message "github.com/matryer/moq/pkg/moq/testpackages/typealiaspkgimport/internal/message"
	mock "github.com/stretchr/testify/mock"
)

// Processor is an autogenerated mock type for the Processor type
type Processor struct {
	mock.Mock
}

// Process provides a mock function with given fields: msg
func (_m *Processor) Process(msg message.Message) error {
	ret := _m.Called(msg)

	var r0 error
	if rf, ok := ret.Get(0).(func(message.Message) error); ok {
		r0 = rf(msg)
	} else {
		r0 = ret.Error(0)
	}

	return r0
}

[dantonio-nyt]

has there been any progress with this issue? I'm experiencing the same problem with imports

[sudo-suhas]

I had tried asking for help on Gophers slack as well but I was not able to use the suggestions to arrive at a solution for the problem of type alias information - https://gophers.slack.com/archives/C0VPK4Z5E/p1629540208130200

[breml]

I did ask on Slack as well and I have been pointed to an older discussion about the same topic as well as this issue on https://github.com/golang/mock/issues/244. As far as I can tell, there is no issue on the Go issue tracker so I am not sure if there is already general awareness of this issue.

Currently it looks like the only way to solve this would be to change the processing of moq such that it primarily processes ast exressions and the resolves these to types (see the above linked discussion).

[papadeltasierra]

Very late to the game but hit this error and I have a problem that this does not solve. I have multiple packages that mockery maps down to a single internal package and I cannot use the --replace-type command-line parameter to replace back to those packages. So what happens is:

mockery follows packages A, B, C to internal package Z I can use replace-type to map Z to A, or B, or C but not all of them!

The package that causes this is not mine and I cannot fix it so seem unable to use mockery to mock my interface.

[K4L1Ma]

https://github.com/matryer/moq/pull/213