github.com/go-asm/go@v1.21.1-0.20240213172139-40c5ead50c48/cmd/go/doc/doc.go (about) 1 // Copyright 2015 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. 2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style 3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. 4 5 // Package doc implements the “go doc” command. 6 package doc 7 8 import ( 9 "context" 10 11 "github.com/go-asm/go/cmd/go/base" 12 "github.com/go-asm/go/cmd/go/cfg" 13 ) 14 15 var CmdDoc = &base.Command{ 16 Run: runDoc, 17 UsageLine: "go doc [doc flags] [package|[package.]symbol[.methodOrField]]", 18 CustomFlags: true, 19 Short: "show documentation for package or symbol", 20 Long: ` 21 Doc prints the documentation comments associated with the item identified by its 22 arguments (a package, const, func, type, var, method, or struct field) 23 followed by a one-line summary of each of the first-level items "under" 24 that item (package-level declarations for a package, methods for a type, 25 etc.). 26 27 Doc accepts zero, one, or two arguments. 28 29 Given no arguments, that is, when run as 30 31 go doc 32 33 it prints the package documentation for the package in the current directory. 34 If the package is a command (package main), the exported symbols of the package 35 are elided from the presentation unless the -cmd flag is provided. 36 37 When run with one argument, the argument is treated as a Go-syntax-like 38 representation of the item to be documented. What the argument selects depends 39 on what is installed in GOROOT and GOPATH, as well as the form of the argument, 40 which is schematically one of these: 41 42 go doc <pkg> 43 go doc <sym>[.<methodOrField>] 44 go doc [<pkg>.]<sym>[.<methodOrField>] 45 go doc [<pkg>.][<sym>.]<methodOrField> 46 47 The first item in this list matched by the argument is the one whose documentation 48 is printed. (See the examples below.) However, if the argument starts with a capital 49 letter it is assumed to identify a symbol or method in the current directory. 50 51 For packages, the order of scanning is determined lexically in breadth-first order. 52 That is, the package presented is the one that matches the search and is nearest 53 the root and lexically first at its level of the hierarchy. The GOROOT tree is 54 always scanned in its entirety before GOPATH. 55 56 If there is no package specified or matched, the package in the current 57 directory is selected, so "go doc Foo" shows the documentation for symbol Foo in 58 the current package. 59 60 The package path must be either a qualified path or a proper suffix of a 61 path. The go tool's usual package mechanism does not apply: package path 62 elements like . and ... are not implemented by go doc. 63 64 When run with two arguments, the first is a package path (full path or suffix), 65 and the second is a symbol, or symbol with method or struct field: 66 67 go doc <pkg> <sym>[.<methodOrField>] 68 69 In all forms, when matching symbols, lower-case letters in the argument match 70 either case but upper-case letters match exactly. This means that there may be 71 multiple matches of a lower-case argument in a package if different symbols have 72 different cases. If this occurs, documentation for all matches is printed. 73 74 Examples: 75 go doc 76 Show documentation for current package. 77 go doc Foo 78 Show documentation for Foo in the current package. 79 (Foo starts with a capital letter so it cannot match 80 a package path.) 81 go doc encoding/json 82 Show documentation for the encoding/json package. 83 go doc json 84 Shorthand for encoding/json. 85 go doc json.Number (or go doc json.number) 86 Show documentation and method summary for json.Number. 87 go doc json.Number.Int64 (or go doc json.number.int64) 88 Show documentation for json.Number's Int64 method. 89 go doc cmd/doc 90 Show package docs for the doc command. 91 go doc -cmd cmd/doc 92 Show package docs and exported symbols within the doc command. 93 go doc template.new 94 Show documentation for html/template's New function. 95 (html/template is lexically before text/template) 96 go doc text/template.new # One argument 97 Show documentation for text/template's New function. 98 go doc text/template new # Two arguments 99 Show documentation for text/template's New function. 100 101 At least in the current tree, these invocations all print the 102 documentation for json.Decoder's Decode method: 103 104 go doc json.Decoder.Decode 105 go doc json.decoder.decode 106 go doc json.decode 107 cd go/src/encoding/json; go doc decode 108 109 Flags: 110 -all 111 Show all the documentation for the package. 112 -c 113 Respect case when matching symbols. 114 -cmd 115 Treat a command (package main) like a regular package. 116 Otherwise package main's exported symbols are hidden 117 when showing the package's top-level documentation. 118 -short 119 One-line representation for each symbol. 120 -src 121 Show the full source code for the symbol. This will 122 display the full Go source of its declaration and 123 definition, such as a function definition (including 124 the body), type declaration or enclosing const 125 block. The output may therefore include unexported 126 details. 127 -u 128 Show documentation for unexported as well as exported 129 symbols, methods, and fields. 130 `, 131 } 132 133 func runDoc(ctx context.Context, cmd *base.Command, args []string) { 134 base.Run(cfg.BuildToolexec, base.Tool("doc"), args) 135 }