The code in the Tendermint repository makes heavy use of import aliasing.
This is made necessary by our extensive reuse of common base package names, and
by repetition of similar names across different subdirectories.
Unfortunately we have not been very consistent about which packages we alias in
various circumstances, and the aliases we use vary. In the spirit of the advice
in the style guide and https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#imports,
his change makes an effort to clean up and normalize import aliasing.
This change makes no API or behavioral changes. It is a pure cleanup intended
o help make the code more readable to developers (including myself) trying to
understand what is being imported where.
Only unexported names have been modified, and the changes were generated and
applied mechanically with gofmt -r and comby, respecting the lexical and
syntactic rules of Go. Even so, I did not fix every inconsistency. Where the
changes would be too disruptive, I left it alone.
The principles I followed in this cleanup are:
- Remove aliases that restate the package name.
- Remove aliases where the base package name is unambiguous.
- Move overly-terse abbreviations from the import to the usage site.
- Fix lexical issues (remove underscores, remove capitalization).
- Fix import groupings to more closely match the style guide.
- Group blank (side-effecting) imports and ensure they are commented.
- Add aliases to multiple imports with the same base package name.
## Description
In blocks_results we use the proto definition of abciResponses: 2672b91ab0/rpc/core/blocks.go (L152-L155,) this leads to the use of the proto definition of the pubkey which is an interface in go (oneof). The interface must be registered with the JSON encoder to have it work correctly.
A clearer divide between proto types and native types is needed.
Closes: #XXX
Reorganizes the Protobuf schemas. It is mostly bikeshedding, so if something is contentious or causes a lot of extra work then I'm fine with reverting. Some Protobuf and Go import paths will change.
* Move `abci/types/types.proto` to `abci/types.proto`.
* Move `crypto/keys/types.proto` and `crypto/merkle/types.proto` to `crypto/keys.proto` and `crypto/proof.proto`.
* Drop the use of `msgs` in filenames, as "message" is a very overloaded term (all Protobuf types are messages, and we also have `message Message`). Use `types.proto` as a catch-all, and otherwise name files by conceptual grouping instead of message kind.
M. J. Fromberger
Marko
Erik Grinaker