I'm using Bazel and gazelle to manage my Go project's BUILD.bazel files.
I'd like to be consistent across languages and avoid Go's specific vendoring tool.
I disabled vendoring for gazelle. It generates the BUILD entries wonderfully for those repositories, but I'm stuck with writing the WORKSPACE incantations for git_repository or http_archive myself. This of course can get tedious if a project I'm using has a lot of external dependencies.
Is there a more convenient way to do it? Could gazelle support updating the WORKSPACE file?
Thanks.
Answering my own question: it looks like the Bazel team wants do add support for this to Gazelle but until that's done we could use the wtool:
$ go get -u github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/go/tools/wtool
$ github.com/gordonklaus/portaudio
This will update the WORKSPACE file accordingly. The command doesn't even have to be run from the repository root - which is nice.
Here's my the diff for my WORKSPACE after running the command above:
$ git diff WORKSPACE
diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 3b15779..c170b60 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -50,3 +50,8 @@ go_repository(
importpath = "google.golang.org/api",
)
+go_repository(
+ name = "com_github_gordonklaus_portaudio",
+ commit = "e66c30a9c4ca11f93538cf8c004831bfb76f3838",
+ importpath = "github.com/gordonklaus/portaudio",
+)