github.com/sourcegraph/goloader (go): Package loader loads a complete Go program from source code, parsing and type-checking the initial packages plus their transitive closure of dependencies.  The ASTs and the derived facts are retained for later use.  THIS INTERFACE IS EXPERIMENTAL AND IS LIKELY TO CHANGE.  The package defines two primary types: Config, which specifies a set of initial packages to load and various other options; and Program, which is the result of successfully loading the packages specified by a configuration.  The configuration can be set directly, but *Config provides various convenience methods to simplify the common cases, each of which can be called any number of times.  Finally, these are followed by a call to Load() to actually load and type-check the program.  See examples_test.go for examples of API usage.  The WORKSPACE is the set of packages accessible to the loader.  The workspace is defined by Config.Build, a *build.Context.  The default context treats subdirectories of $GOROOT and $GOPATH as packages, but this behavior may be overridden.  An AD HOC package is one specified as a set of source files on the command line.  In the simplest case, it may consist of a single file such as $GOROOT/src/net/http/triv.go.  EXTERNAL TEST packages are those comprised of a set of *_test.go files all with the same 'package foo_test' declaration, all in the same directory.  (go/build.Package calls these files XTestFiles.)  An IMPORTABLE package is one that can be referred to by some import spec.  Every importable package is uniquely identified by its PACKAGE PATH or just PATH, a string such as "fmt", "encoding/json", or "cmd/vendor/golang.org/x/arch/x86/x86asm".  A package path typically denotes a subdirectory of the workspace.  An import declaration uses an IMPORT PATH to refer to a package. Most import declarations use the package path as the import path.  Due to VENDORING (https://golang.org/s/go15vendor), the interpretation of an import path may depend on the directory in which it appears.  To resolve an import path to a package path, go/build must search the enclosing directories for a subdirectory named "vendor".  ad hoc packages and external test packages are NON-IMPORTABLE.  The path of an ad hoc package is inferred from the package declarations of its files and is therefore not a unique package key. For example, Config.CreatePkgs may specify two initial ad hoc packages, both with path "main".  An AUGMENTED package is an importable package P plus all the *_test.go files with same 'package foo' declaration as P. (go/build.Package calls these files TestFiles.)  The INITIAL packages are those specified in the configuration.  A DEPENDENCY is a package loaded to satisfy an import in an initial package or another dependency.
Keywords: go-loader|goloader|types-importer