Gqlgen: Fails when built with -trimpath

[tv42]

What happened?

$ GOFLAGS='-trimpath' go build github.com/99designs/gqlgen && ./gqlgen
modelgen: locating templates: lstat github.com/99designs/[email protected]/plugin/modelgen: no such file or directory
[EXIT:3] $ 

What did you expect?

Success, like without -trimpath:

$ GOFLAGS=' ' go build github.com/99designs/gqlgen  && ./gqlgen
$ 

Minimal graphql.schema and models to reproduce

Just about anything, really.

versions

• gqlgen version?
• go version?
• dep or go modules?

$ go list -m github.com/99designs/gqlgen
github.com/99designs/gqlgen v0.10.1
$ go version
go version go1.13.3 linux/amd64

And obviously modules.

It seems gqlgen is using build-time paths to try to locate its template files, and trimpath confuses that. Perhaps the templates should be bundled into the executable.

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[tv42]

Bugs don't disappear just because time passes!

[vektah]

So don't use trimpath? gqlgen doesnt get shipped to your servers, its a tool used in your ci/dev environment.

We might start inlining templates again, but its trading off a lot of developer experience to fix your build environment.

[tv42]

Trimpath is a very nice default.

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[sateeshpnv]

bazel uses trimpath to achieve reproducible builds. We use gqlgen/api to generate code. And modelgen fails in locating templates. The following patch works for us.

diff -urN a/codegen/templates/templates.go b/codegen/templates/templates.go
--- a/codegen/templates/templates.go 2020-05-26 15:48:27.000000000 -0700
+++ b/codegen/templates/templates.go 2020-05-26 15:48:28.000000000 -0700
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@
        roots = append(roots, "template.gotpl")
    } else {
        // load all the templates in the directory
+       // In a bazel environment, that uses trimpath to achieve reproducible builds, template files are under ${runfiles}/__main__/${rootDir} and not {rootDir} during runtime
+       // Hence prefix RUN_PATH if set.
+       // Ex: bazel-out/host/bin/src/code/generate.runfiles/__main__/external/com_github_99designs_gqlgen/codegen
+       if runFilesPath := os.Getenv("RUN_PATH"); runFilesPath != "" {
+           rootDir = filepath.Join(runFilesPath, rootDir)
+       }
        err := filepath.Walk(rootDir, func(path string, info os.FileInfo, err error) error {
            if err != nil {
                return err

Update:

Instead of patching gqlgen code, changing directory to the runtime path helped. No patch required in gqlgen.