VS Code throwing error 'No package for import' but code compiles and runs fine

Question

As a work requirement learning gRPC through an online course.

I have a project defined in folder greet (outside of GOPATH) with three packages called:

• greet_client
• greet_server
• greetpb

In the go.mod file at the root of my project, I've specified the following:

module example.com/myuser/myproject

go 1.14

The code in greet_server/server.go makes a reference to greetpb.

I'm referencing it like the following:

I'm able to run server.go successfully. It returns the expected the result:

My question is on the red squiggly lines VSCode throws saying it could not import greetpb:

Here's how package greetpb is defined (it's an auto generated file):

How can I get rid of this warning message? Is it something I've not setup properly?

Update:

When I try to ctrl+click to view the module greetpb on the file server.go, I note that it's pointing to the url pkg.go.dev.

How can I make the program to do a "local" lookup?

Canasta

Answer 1

I know that I am late at the party but just in case someone has a similar issue.

What worked for after lots of tries was to edit the file ~/.config/Code/User/settings.json

At the line that says I made it like this. "go.goroot": "../",

In this project everything was in the one level out. For now it's ok.

Just a diclaimer, I am new to Go. So I will edit in future in case I learn something new about this.

Advantageous

Answer 2

1. Why would you use example.com? You don't have your package defined there.

2. Initialize go modules first i.e.

go mod init github.com/$USER/$REPO

3. Go mod vendor

go mod tidy && go mod vendor

4. That's it.

Shedd

example.com is fine for a test module that isn't published anywhere. go mod vendor is also not necessary. – Splendid

Also they've already initialized the module, as you can tell by the presence of go.mod and go.sum files – Splendid