Refactorings

Last week we held the Let’s Talk About You and GoLand webinar. We talked about advanced debugging features, refactoring essentials, and the top editing features that GoLand has to offer.   The webinar was presented by Florin Pățan, author of many GoLand blog posts and a frequent webinar speaker. He was joined by two special guests, GoLand team lead Artem Khvastunov and GoLand developer Marat Khabibullin.  If you missed the webinar, don’t worry, we have a recording for you to watch:  https://youtu.be/XWIIrNQRUg0 Q&A During the webinar Florin and the GoLand te

Let's look at the workflow of incrementing the major version of a module using the module definition taken from our What's New in GoLand repository: module renameab.le/module go 1.11 Upgrading a module means bumping the version tag in version control. We also need to change our import paths. For example, if to bump the module version from `v1` to `v2`, we need our imports changed from: "renameab.le/module/pkg/log" to "renameab.le/module/v2/pkg/log" Obviously, this can appear in lots of places in the code. Good news: the IDE can do this for you. With the 2021.1 version of

You can get this EAP build through the Toolbox App, by downloading it from the website, by using a snap package (for Ubuntu), or from right inside GoLand by selecting Automatically check updates for Early Access Program in Preferences / Settings | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings | Updates. Don’t forget that we regularly release nightly builds based on the latest development code. You can use these nightly builds to get access to the latest features without having to wait for the official EAP announcements. These nightly builds are only available via the Toolbox App, however. Do

Refactorings and quick-fixes are one of the areas that set IDEs apart from text editors. With them, you can quickly move parts of code around in a safe manner, rename identifiers or change function/method signature across large codebases, extract interfaces from existing types, and even extract/inline values. As such, it should come as no surprise that we gave them a bit of a tweak in 2019.2, and made them even better. Refactorings in 2019.2 Let’s start with the improved Extract Method refactoring. Previously, it was not possible to use it with code that contained a return statement. T

In today’s article, we will talk about the Extract Interface refactoring, a new refactoring available since GoLand 2019.1. This refactoring allows us to take a type and extract all the method definitions that we need, then create a new interface from them. This operation is particularly useful when going from a single implementation to using multiple implementations, such as in the example below. To invoke this, you can use the Refactor This shortcut, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T on Windows/Linux or ^T on macOS. The Extract Interface dialog allows us to select any method from the existing type and co

GoLand Early Access Program for the upcoming 2019.1 release is open! You can get the first EAP build via Toolbox App, or from the website, using snap packages (for Ubuntu) or even from GoLand itself — just be sure that you select Automatically check updates for Early Access Program in Preferences / Settings | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings | Updates. (more…)

This is the last blog post in the series of refactorings so I wanted to save the most used refactoring the IDE has for last. It’s one of the most powerful tools that I use and it works like magic every time. You might think that renaming things is pretty straightforward, but there are some lesser-known use cases which can really boost your productivity that I want to cover today. (more…)

In this blog post, we will cover the Move refactoring option as we continue to explore the refactorings provided by the IDE. If you want to check out the other articles from this series, you can find them all here (links will be updated as new articles are published): - Rename - Move & Copy - Extract variable/constant - Extract function/method - Inline variable/constant - Change Signature - Extract Interface (new in 2019.1) This is currently my second favorite refactoring, especially during the phase of the project that needs me to restructure how the code is organized.

GoLand 2018.3 EAP 5 is available! Grab your copy from the website, update via Toolbox App, or install it beside your stable GoLand version. Download GoLand 2018.3 EAP (more…)

In this blog post, we will cover the Extract and Inline refactoring options as we continue to explore the refactorings provided by the IDE. If you want to check out the other articles from this series, you can find them all here (links will be updated as new articles are published): Rename Move & Copy Extract variable/constant Extract function/method Inline variable/constant Change Signature Extract Interface (new in 2019.1) (more…)