Coding guidelines¶
Coding Golang¶
We code in Go™ and strictly follow the best practices and will not accept any deviations. You must run the following tools against your Go code and fix all errors and warnings: - golint - go vet - goimports
Generating gRPC code¶
If you modify any .proto files, run the following command to
generate/update the respective .pb.go files.
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric
make protos
Adding or updating Go packages¶
Hyperledger Fabric uses Go Vendoring for package
management. This means that all required packages reside in the
$GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric/vendor folder. Go will use
packages in this folder instead of the GOPATH when the go install or
go build commands are executed. To manage the packages in the
vendor folder, we use
dep.