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Alok Kumar Singh
Alok Kumar Singh

Reputation: 2549

Can I list all standard Go packages?

Is there a way in Go to list all the standard/built-in packages (i.e., the packages which come installed with a Go installation)?

I have a list of packages and I want to figure out which packages are standard.

Upvotes: 204

Views: 16638

Answers (3)

Thundercat
Thundercat

Reputation: 120931

Use the go list std command to list the standard packages. The special import path std expands to all packages in the standard Go library (doc).

Exec that command to get the list in a Go program:

cmd := exec.Command("go", "list", "std")
p, err := cmd.Output()
if err != nil {
    // handle error
}
stdPkgs = strings.Fields(string(p))

Upvotes: 40

Martin Tournoij
Martin Tournoij

Reputation: 27822

You can use the new golang.org/x/tools/go/packages for this. This provides a programmatic interface for most of go list:

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "golang.org/x/tools/go/packages"
)

func main() {
    pkgs, err := packages.Load(nil, "std")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    fmt.Println(pkgs)
    // Output: [archive/tar archive/zip bufio bytes compress/bzip2 ... ]
}

To get a isStandardPackage() you can store it in a map, like so:

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "golang.org/x/tools/go/packages"
)

var standardPackages = make(map[string]struct{})

func init() {
    pkgs, err := packages.Load(nil, "std")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    for _, p := range pkgs {
        standardPackages[p.PkgPath] = struct{}{}
    }
}

func isStandardPackage(pkg string) bool {
    _, ok := standardPackages[pkg]
    return ok
}

func main() {
    fmt.Println(isStandardPackage("fmt"))  // true
    fmt.Println(isStandardPackage("nope")) // false
}

Upvotes: 59

svetha.cvl
svetha.cvl

Reputation: 834

If you want a simple solution, you could check if a package is present in $GOROOT/pkg. All standard packages are installed here.

Upvotes: 3

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