I understand the problem, as per the answer here, however, I could really use help or a more detailed code explanation of how it's overcome.
My situation is this: I used to have models and controllers separated, and in my models package I had a datastore.go file containing an interface of all the model functions:
package models
type DSDatabase interface {
CreateUser(ctx context.Context, username string, password []byte) (*datastore.Key, error)
// More model functions
}
type datastoreDB struct {
client *datastore.Client
}
var (
DB DSDatabase
_ DSDatabase = &datastoreDB{}
)
func init() {
// init datastore
}
This was all fine because the model functions were also located within the models package, so my functions in the controller package could freely call models.DB.CreateUser(ctx, "username", []byte("password"))
.
Now, I have decided to move all the above code to a datastore
package, whereas the model for CreateUser
is located in a user
package. In other words, package user
now contains both controller and model functions, for which the controller related functions rely on datastore
package, while the DSDatabase
interface rely on the user
model functions.
I would really appreciate help figuring out how to overcome the import cycle while keeping the DSDatastore
interface separate from all the other packages such as home
and user
.
in case the above is not clear enough, the above code has changed to:
package datastore
import (
"github.com/username/projectname/user"
)
type DSDatabase interface {
user.CreateUser(ctx context.Context, username string, passwoUserRegister(ctx context.Context, username string, password []byte) (*datastore.Key, error)
}
...
while in my user
package I have this in a controller-related file:
package user
import (
"github.com/username/projectname/datastore"
)
func CreateUserPOST(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
// get formdata and such
datastore.DB.CreateUser(ctx, "username", []byte("password"))
}
and in another model-related file I have:
package user
import (
"github.com/username/projectname/datastore"
)
func (db *datastore.datastoreDB) CreateUser(ctx context.Context, username string) (*User, error) {
key := datastore.NameKey("User", username, nil)
var user User
err := db.client.Get(ctx, key, &user)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return &user, nil
}
Which of course results in an import cycle, that I sadly can't figure out how to overcome..