Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

Refactoring code across packages (gorename, gomvpkg, fix)

Oftentimes, you may come across a variable within a function that has a strange or non-descriptive name that you are quite keen on renaming. Performing such a rename operation is quite simple; just select the function block and run a find-and-replace operation. Simple as pie!

But what if you want to rename a public struct field or a function that is exported from your package? This is definitely not a trivial task as you need to track down all the references to the thing being renamed (the list may also include other packages) and update them to use the new name. This type of rename operation takes us into the realm of code refactoring; fortunately, there is a tool at our disposal ...