alias-generator

alias-generator

The goal of this utility is to generate and update the alias.go files that are used through-out the Cosmos-SDK codebase.

The output is modelled on the output generated by Multitool utility.

Installation

1. Clone this repository.
2. Invoke go build to create a local binary. Invoke go install to install command in path.

Usage

The alias-generator has two modes: create and update.

The create command is used to create a new alias.go file in one or more packages. It will recurse through sub-packages and create aliases for any type, variable, constant or function that is not explicitly annotated with a noalias comment.

The update command will recursively search for existing alias.go files and update them.

There are two ways to prevent an entire package from being aliased:

• Annotate the package with a // noalias comment at the top of every file
• Remove the package from the import list in the alias.go file and update the file

Examples

create a new alias.go file for the inflation module. Will overwrite an existing file.

alias-generator create ./x/inflation

Update all alias.go files in a project. Searches recursively below current directory for files to update.

alias-generator update .