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Settings

This extension is highly configurable, and as such, offers a number of settings. These can be configured by modifying your User or Workspace Settings.

To navigate to your settings, open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P) and search for "settings". The simplest way to modify your settings is through "Preferences: Open Settings (UI)".

For tuning the features provided by gopls, see the section for gopls settings.

Latest changes

The settings described below are up-to-date as of January 2021. We do our best to keep documentation current, but if a setting is missing, you can always consult the full list in the Extensions view. Documentation for each setting should also be visible in the Settings UI.

To view the list of settings:

  1. Navigate to the Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X).
  2. Find the Go extension and click on it to open the Extension Editor.
  3. Click on the Feature Contributions tab.
  4. Scroll through the list under Settings.

Security

This extension runs a few third-party command-line tools found from the locations determined by the PATH or Path environment variable, and the settings such as "go.alternateTools" or "go.toolsGopath". Configuring them in workspace settings allows users to conveniently select a different set of tools based on project's need, but also allows attackers to run arbitrary binaries on your machine if they successfuly convince you to open a random repository. In order to reduce the security risk, the extension reads those settings from user settings by default. If the repository can be trusted and workspace settings must be used, you can mark the workspace as a trusted workspace using the "Go: Toggle Workspace Trust Flag" command.

Detailed list

go.addTags

Tags and options configured here will be used by the Add Tags command to add tags to struct fields. If promptForTags is true, then user will be prompted for tags and options. By default, json tags are added.

Properties Description
options Comma separated tag=options pairs to be used by Go: Add Tags command
Default: "json=omitempty"
promptForTags If true, Go: Add Tags command will prompt the user to provide tags, options, transform values instead of using the configured values
Default: false
tags Comma separated tags to be used by Go: Add Tags command
Default: "json"
template Custom format used by Go: Add Tags command for the tag value to be applied
Default: ""
transform Transformation rule used by Go: Add Tags command to add tags
Allowed Options: snakecase, camelcase, lispcase, pascalcase, keep
Default: "snakecase"

Default:

{
	"options" :	"json=omitempty",
	"promptForTags" :	false,
	"tags" :	"json",
	"template" :	"",
	"transform" :	"snakecase",
}

go.alternateTools

Alternate tools or alternate paths for the same tools used by the Go extension. Provide either absolute path or the name of the binary in GOPATH/bin, GOROOT/bin or PATH. Useful when you want to use wrapper script for the Go tools or versioned tools from https://gopkg.in. When specified as a workspace setting, the setting is used only when the workspace is marked trusted with "Go: Toggle Workspace Trust Flag".

Properties Description
dlv Alternate tool to use instead of the dlv binary or alternate path to use for the dlv binary.
Default: "dlv"
go Alternate tool to use instead of the go binary or alternate path to use for the go binary.
Default: "go"
go-outline Alternate tool to use instead of the go-outline binary or alternate path to use for the go-outline binary.
Default: "go-outline"
gopkgs Alternate tool to use instead of the gopkgs binary or alternate path to use for the gopkgs binary.
Default: "gopkgs"
gopls Alternate tool to use instead of the gopls binary or alternate path to use for the gopls binary.
Default: "gopls"

go.autocompleteUnimportedPackages

Include unimported packages in auto-complete suggestions. Not applicable when using the language server.

Default: false

go.buildFlags

Flags to go build/go test used during build-on-save or running tests. (e.g. ["-ldflags='-s'"]) This is propagated to the language server if gopls.build.buildFlags is not specified.

go.buildOnSave

Compiles code on file save using 'go build' or 'go test -c'. Options are 'workspace', 'package', or 'off'. Not applicable when using the language server's diagnostics. See 'go.languageServerExperimentalFeatures.diagnostics' setting.
Allowed Options: package, workspace, off

Default: "package"

go.buildTags

The Go build tags to use for all commands, that support a -tags '...' argument. When running tests, go.testTags will be used instead if it was set. This is propagated to the language server if gopls.build.buildFlags is not specified.

Default: ""

go.coverMode

When generating code coverage, the value for -covermode. 'default' is the default value chosen by the 'go test' command.
Allowed Options: default, set, count, atomic

Default: "default"

go.coverOnSave

If true, runs 'go test -coverprofile' on save and shows test coverage.

Default: false

go.coverOnSingleTest

If true, shows test coverage when Go: Test Function at cursor command is run.

Default: false

go.coverOnSingleTestFile

If true, shows test coverage when Go: Test Single File command is run.

Default: false

go.coverOnTestPackage

If true, shows test coverage when Go: Test Package command is run.

Default: true

go.coverShowCounts

When generating code coverage, should counts be shown as --374--

Default: false

go.coverageDecorator

This option lets you choose the way to display code coverage. Choose either to highlight the complete line or to show a decorator in the gutter. You can customize the colors and borders for the former and the style for the latter.

Properties Description
coveredBorderColor Color to use for the border of covered code.
coveredGutterStyle Gutter style to indicate covered code.
Allowed Options: blockblue, blockred, blockgreen, blockyellow, slashred, slashgreen, slashblue, slashyellow, verticalred, verticalgreen, verticalblue, verticalyellow
coveredHighlightColor Color in the rgba format to use to highlight covered code.
type

Allowed Options: highlight, gutter
uncoveredBorderColor Color to use for the border of uncovered code.
uncoveredGutterStyle Gutter style to indicate covered code.
Allowed Options: blockblue, blockred, blockgreen, blockyellow, slashred, slashgreen, slashblue, slashyellow, verticalred, verticalgreen, verticalblue, verticalyellow
uncoveredHighlightColor Color in the rgba format to use to highlight uncovered code.

Default:

{
	"coveredBorderColor" :	"rgba(64,128,128,0.5)",
	"coveredGutterStyle" :	"blockblue",
	"coveredHighlightColor" :	"rgba(64,128,128,0.5)",
	"type" :	"highlight",
	"uncoveredBorderColor" :	"rgba(128,64,64,0.25)",
	"uncoveredGutterStyle" :	"slashyellow",
	"uncoveredHighlightColor" :	"rgba(128,64,64,0.25)",
}

go.coverageOptions

Use these options to control whether only covered or only uncovered code or both should be highlighted after running test coverage
Allowed Options: showCoveredCodeOnly, showUncoveredCodeOnly, showBothCoveredAndUncoveredCode

Default: "showBothCoveredAndUncoveredCode"

go.delveConfig

Delve settings that applies to all debugging sessions. Debug configuration in the launch.json file will override these values.

Properties Description
apiVersion Delve Api Version to use. Default value is 2.
Allowed Options: 1, 2
Default: 2
debugAdapter Select which debug adapter to use by default. This is also used for choosing which debug adapter to use when no launch.json is present and with codelenses.
Allowed Options: legacy, dlv-dap
Default: "dlv-dap"
dlvLoadConfig LoadConfig describes to delve, how to load values from target's memory. Ignored by 'dlv-dap'.
Default: { <pre>"followPointers" : true,<br/>"maxArrayValues" : 64,<br/>"maxStringLen" : 64,<br/>"maxStructFields" : -1,<br/>"maxVariableRecurse" : 1,</pre>}
showGlobalVariables Boolean value to indicate whether global package variables should be shown in the variables pane or not.
Default: false
substitutePath An array of mappings from a local path to the remote path that is used by the debuggee. The debug adapter will replace the local path with the remote path in all of the calls. Overriden by remotePath (in attach request).

Default:

{
	"apiVersion" :	2,
	"debugAdapter" :	"legacy",
	"dlvLoadConfig" :		{
		"followPointers" :	true,
		"maxArrayValues" :	64,
		"maxStringLen" :	64,
		"maxStructFields" :	-1,
		"maxVariableRecurse" :	1,
	},
	"showGlobalVariables" :	false,
	"substitutePath" :	[],
}

go.disableConcurrentTests

If true, tests will not run concurrently. When a new test run is started, the previous will be cancelled.

Default: false

go.docsTool

Pick 'godoc' or 'gogetdoc' to get documentation. Not applicable when using the language server.
Allowed Options: godoc, gogetdoc, guru

Default: "godoc"

go.editorContextMenuCommands

Experimental Feature: Enable/Disable entries from the context menu in the editor.

Properties Description
addImport If true, adds command to import a package to the editor context menu
Default: true
addTags If true, adds command to add configured tags from struct fields to the editor context menu
Default: true
benchmarkAtCursor If true, adds command to benchmark the test under the cursor to the editor context menu
Default: true
debugTestAtCursor If true, adds command to debug the test under the cursor to the editor context menu
Default: true
fillStruct If true, adds command to fill struct literal with default values to the editor context menu
Default: true
generateTestForFile If true, adds command to generate unit tests for current file to the editor context menu
Default: true
generateTestForFunction If true, adds command to generate unit tests for function under the cursor to the editor context menu
Default: true
generateTestForPackage If true, adds command to generate unit tests for currnt package to the editor context menu
Default: true
playground If true, adds command to upload the current file or selection to the Go Playground
Default: true
removeTags If true, adds command to remove configured tags from struct fields to the editor context menu
Default: true
testAtCursor If true, adds command to run the test under the cursor to the editor context menu
Default: true
testCoverage If true, adds command to run test coverage to the editor context menu
Default: true
testFile If true, adds command to run all tests in the current file to the editor context menu
Default: true
testPackage If true, adds command to run all tests in the current package to the editor context menu
Default: true
toggleTestFile If true, adds command to toggle between a Go file and its test file to the editor context menu
Default: true

Default:

{
	"addImport" :	true,
	"addTags" :	true,
	"benchmarkAtCursor" :	false,
	"debugTestAtCursor" :	true,
	"fillStruct" :	false,
	"generateTestForFile" :	false,
	"generateTestForFunction" :	true,
	"generateTestForPackage" :	false,
	"playground" :	true,
	"removeTags" :	false,
	"testAtCursor" :	true,
	"testCoverage" :	true,
	"testFile" :	false,
	"testPackage" :	false,
	"toggleTestFile" :	true,
}

go.enableCodeLens

Feature level setting to enable/disable code lens for references and run/debug tests

Properties Description
references If true, enables the references code lens. Uses guru. Recalculates when there is change to the document followed by scrolling. Unnecessary when using the language server; use the call graph feature instead.
Default: false
runtest If true, enables code lens for running and debugging tests
Default: true

Default:

{
	"references" :	false,
	"runtest" :	true,
}

go.formatFlags

Flags to pass to format tool (e.g. ["-s"]). Not applicable when using the language server.

go.formatTool

Not applicable when using the language server. Choosing 'goimports', 'goreturns', or 'gofumports' will add missing imports and remove unused imports.
Allowed Options:

  • default: If the language server is enabled, format via the language server, which already supports gofmt, goimports, goreturns, and gofumpt. Otherwise, goimports.
  • gofmt: Formats the file according to the standard Go style.
  • goimports: Organizes imports and formats the file with gofmt.
  • goformat: Configurable gofmt, see https://github.com/mbenkmann/goformat.
  • gofumpt: Stricter version of gofmt, see https://github.com/mvdan/gofumpt.
  • gofumports: Applies gofumpt formatting and organizes imports.

Default: "default"

go.generateTestsFlags

Additional command line flags to pass to gotests for generating tests.

go.gocodeAutoBuild

Enable gocode's autobuild feature. Not applicable when using the language server.

Default: false

go.gocodeFlags

Additional flags to pass to gocode. Not applicable when using the language server.

Default: [-builtin -ignore-case -unimported-packages]

go.gocodePackageLookupMode

Used to determine the Go package lookup rules for completions by gocode. Only applies when using nsf/gocode. Latest versions of the Go extension uses mdempsky/gocode by default. Not applicable when using the language server.
Allowed Options: go, gb, bzl

Default: "go"

go.gopath

Specify GOPATH here to override the one that is set as environment variable. The inferred GOPATH from workspace root overrides this, if go.inferGopath is set to true. When specified as a workspace setting, the setting is used only when the workspace is marked trusted with "Go: Toggle Workspace Trust Flag".

go.goroot

Specifies the GOROOT to use when no environment variable is set. When specified as a workspace setting, the setting is used only when the workspace is marked trusted with "Go: Toggle Workspace Trust Flag".

go.gotoSymbol.ignoreFolders

Folder names (not paths) to ignore while using Go to Symbol in Workspace feature. Not applicable when using the language server.

go.gotoSymbol.includeGoroot

If false, the standard library located at $GOROOT will be excluded while using the Go to Symbol in File feature. Not applicable when using the language server.

Default: false

go.gotoSymbol.includeImports

If false, the import statements will be excluded while using the Go to Symbol in File feature. Not applicable when using the language server.

Default: false

go.inferGopath

Infer GOPATH from the workspace root. This is ignored when using Go Modules. When specified as a workspace setting, the setting is used only when the workspace is marked trusted with "Go: Toggle Workspace Trust Flag".

Default: false

go.installDependenciesWhenBuilding

If true, then -i flag will be passed to go build everytime the code is compiled. Since Go 1.10, setting this may be unnecessary unless you are in GOPATH mode and do not use the language server.

Default: false

go.languageServerExperimentalFeatures

Temporary flag to enable/disable diagnostics from the language server. This setting will be deprecated soon. Please see and response to Issue 50.

Properties Description
diagnostics If true, the language server will provide build, vet errors and the extension will ignore the buildOnSave, vetOnSave settings.
Default: true

Default:

{
	"diagnostics" :	true,
}

go.languageServerFlags

Flags like -rpc.trace and -logfile to be used while running the language server.

go.lintFlags

Flags to pass to Lint tool (e.g. ["-min_confidence=.8"])

go.lintOnSave

Lints code on file save using the configured Lint tool. Options are 'file', 'package', 'workspace' or 'off'.
Allowed Options: file, package, workspace, off

Default: "package"

go.lintTool

Specifies Lint tool name.
Allowed Options: staticcheck, golint, golangci-lint, revive

Default: "staticcheck"

go.liveErrors

Use gotype on the file currently being edited and report any semantic or syntactic errors found after configured delay. Not applicable when using the language server.

Properties Description
delay The number of milliseconds to delay before execution. Resets with each keystroke.
Default: 500
enabled If true, runs gotype on the file currently being edited and reports any semantic or syntactic errors found. Disabled when the language server is enabled.
Default: false

Default:

{
	"delay" :	500,
	"enabled" :	false,
}

go.logging.level

The logging level the extension logs at, defaults to 'error'
Allowed Options: off, error, info, verbose

Default: "error"

go.playground

The flags configured here will be passed through to command goplay

Properties Description
openbrowser Whether to open the created Go Playground in the default browser
Default: true
run Whether to run the created Go Playground after creation
Default: true
share Whether to make the created Go Playground shareable
Default: true

Default:

{
	"openbrowser" :	true,
	"run" :	true,
	"share" :	true,
}

go.removeTags

Tags and options configured here will be used by the Remove Tags command to remove tags to struct fields. If promptForTags is true, then user will be prompted for tags and options. By default, all tags and options will be removed.

Properties Description
options Comma separated tag=options pairs to be used by Go: Remove Tags command
Default: "json=omitempty"
promptForTags If true, Go: Remove Tags command will prompt the user to provide tags and options instead of using the configured values
Default: false
tags Comma separated tags to be used by Go: Remove Tags command
Default: "json"

Default:

{
	"options" :	"",
	"promptForTags" :	false,
	"tags" :	"",
}

go.terminal.activateEnvironment

Apply the Go & PATH environment variables used by the extension to all integrated terminals.

Default: true

go.testEnvFile

Absolute path to a file containing environment variables definitions. File contents should be of the form key=value.

go.testEnvVars

Environment variables that will be passed to the process that runs the Go tests

go.testExplorerConcatenateMessages

If true, test log messages associated with a given location will be shown as a single message.

Default: true

go.testExplorerPackages

Control whether packages in the test explorer are presented flat or nested.
Allowed Options: flat, nested

Default: "flat"

go.testExplorerRunBenchmarks

Include benchmarks when running all tests in a group.

Default: false

go.testFlags

Flags to pass to go test. If null, then buildFlags will be used. This is not propagated to the language server.

go.testOnSave

Run 'go test' on save for current package. It is not advised to set this to true when you have Auto Save enabled.

Default: false

go.testTags

The Go build tags to use for when running tests. If null, then buildTags will be used.

go.testTimeout

Specifies the timeout for go test in ParseDuration format.

Default: "30s"

go.toolsEnvVars

Environment variables that will be passed to the tools that run the Go tools (e.g. CGO_CFLAGS)

go.toolsGopath

Location to install the Go tools that the extension depends on if you don't want them in your GOPATH. When specified as a workspace setting, the setting is used only when the workspace is marked trusted with "Go: Toggle Workspace Trust Flag".

go.toolsManagement.autoUpdate

Automatically update the tools used by the extension, without prompting the user.

Default: false

go.toolsManagement.checkForUpdates

Specify whether to prompt about new versions of Go and the Go tools (currently, only gopls) the extension depends on
Allowed Options:

  • proxy: keeps notified of new releases by checking the Go module proxy (GOPROXY)
  • local: checks only the minimum tools versions required by the extension
  • off: completely disables version check (not recommended)

Default: "proxy"

go.trace.server

Trace the communication between VS Code and the Go language server.
Allowed Options: off, messages, verbose

Default: "off"

go.useCodeSnippetsOnFunctionSuggest

Complete functions with their parameter signature, including the variable type. Not propagated to the language server.

Default: false

go.useCodeSnippetsOnFunctionSuggestWithoutType

Complete functions with their parameter signature, excluding the variable types. Use gopls.usePlaceholders when using the language server.

Default: false

go.useGoProxyToCheckForToolUpdates (deprecated)

Use go.toolsManagement.checkForUpdates instead. When enabled, the extension automatically checks the Go proxy if there are updates available for Go and the Go tools (at present, only gopls) it depends on and prompts the user accordingly

Default: true

go.useLanguageServer

Use the Go language server "gopls" from Google for powering language features like code navigation, completion, refactoring, formatting & diagnostics.

Default: true

go.vetFlags

Flags to pass to go tool vet (e.g. ["-all", "-shadow"])

go.vetOnSave

Vets code on file save using 'go tool vet'. Not applicable when using the language server's diagnostics. See 'go.languageServerExperimentalFeatures.diagnostics' setting.
Allowed Options: package, workspace, off

Default: "package"

gopls

Customize gopls behavior by specifying the gopls' settings in this section. For example,

"gopls" : {
	"build.directoryFilters": ["-node_modules"]
	...
}

This section is directly read by gopls. See the gopls section section for the full list of gopls settings.

Settings for gopls

Configure the default Go language server ('gopls'). In most cases, configuring this section is unnecessary. See the documentation for all available settings.

build.allowImplicitNetworkAccess

(Experimental) allowImplicitNetworkAccess disables GOPROXY=off, allowing implicit module downloads rather than requiring user action. This option will eventually be removed.

Default: false

build.allowModfileModifications

(Experimental) allowModfileModifications disables -mod=readonly, allowing imports from out-of-scope modules. This option will eventually be removed.

Default: false

build.buildFlags

buildFlags is the set of flags passed on to the build system when invoked. It is applied to queries like go list, which is used when discovering files. The most common use is to set -tags.

If unspecified, values of go.buildFlags, go.buildTags will be propagated.

build.directoryFilters

directoryFilters can be used to exclude unwanted directories from the workspace. By default, all directories are included. Filters are an operator, + to include and - to exclude, followed by a path prefix relative to the workspace folder. They are evaluated in order, and the last filter that applies to a path controls whether it is included. The path prefix can be empty, so an initial - excludes everything.

Examples:

Exclude node_modules: -node_modules

Include only project_a: - (exclude everything), +project_a

Include only project_a, but not node_modules inside it: -, +project_a, -project_a/node_modules

build.env

env adds environment variables to external commands run by gopls, most notably go list.

build.expandWorkspaceToModule

(Experimental) expandWorkspaceToModule instructs gopls to adjust the scope of the workspace to find the best available module root. gopls first looks for a go.mod file in any parent directory of the workspace folder, expanding the scope to that directory if it exists. If no viable parent directory is found, gopls will check if there is exactly one child directory containing a go.mod file, narrowing the scope to that directory if it exists.

Default: true

build.experimentalPackageCacheKey

(Experimental) experimentalPackageCacheKey controls whether to use a coarser cache key for package type information to increase cache hits. This setting removes the user's environment, build flags, and working directory from the cache key, which should be a safe change as all relevant inputs into the type checking pass are already hashed into the key. This is temporarily guarded by an experiment because caching behavior is subtle and difficult to comprehensively test.

Default: true

build.experimentalTemplateSupport

(Experimental) experimentalTemplateSupport opts into the experimental support for template files.

Default: false

build.experimentalUseInvalidMetadata

(Experimental) experimentalUseInvalidMetadata enables gopls to fall back on outdated package metadata to provide editor features if the go command fails to load packages for some reason (like an invalid go.mod file). This will eventually be the default behavior, and this setting will be removed.

Default: false

build.experimentalWorkspaceModule

(Experimental) experimentalWorkspaceModule opts a user into the experimental support for multi-module workspaces.

Default: false

build.memoryMode

(Experimental) memoryMode controls the tradeoff gopls makes between memory usage and correctness.

Values other than Normal are untested and may break in surprising ways.
Allowed Options:

  • DegradeClosed: "DegradeClosed": In DegradeClosed mode, gopls will collect less information about packages without open files. As a result, features like Find References and Rename will miss results in such packages.
  • Normal

Default: "Normal"

formatting.gofumpt

gofumpt indicates if we should run gofumpt formatting.

Default: false

formatting.local

local is the equivalent of the goimports -local flag, which puts imports beginning with this string after third-party packages. It should be the prefix of the import path whose imports should be grouped separately.

Default: ""

ui.codelenses

codelenses overrides the enabled/disabled state of code lenses. See the "Code Lenses" section of the Settings page for the list of supported lenses.

Example Usage:

"gopls": {
...
  "codelens": {
    "generate": false,  // Don't show the `go generate` lens.
    "gc_details": true  // Show a code lens toggling the display of gc's choices.
  }
...
}
Properties Description
gc_details Toggle the calculation of gc annotations.
Default: false
generate Runs go generate for a given directory.
Default: true
regenerate_cgo Regenerates cgo definitions.
Default: true
test Runs go test for a specific set of test or benchmark functions.
Default: false
tidy Runs go mod tidy for a module.
Default: true
upgrade_dependency Upgrades a dependency in the go.mod file for a module.
Default: true
vendor Runs go mod vendor for a module.
Default: true

ui.completion.completionBudget

(For Debugging) completionBudget is the soft latency goal for completion requests. Most requests finish in a couple milliseconds, but in some cases deep completions can take much longer. As we use up our budget we dynamically reduce the search scope to ensure we return timely results. Zero means unlimited.

Default: "100ms"

ui.completion.experimentalPostfixCompletions

(Experimental) experimentalPostfixCompletions enables artifical method snippets such as "someSlice.sort!".

Default: true

ui.completion.matcher

(Advanced) matcher sets the algorithm that is used when calculating completion candidates.
Allowed Options: CaseInsensitive, CaseSensitive, Fuzzy

Default: "Fuzzy"

ui.completion.usePlaceholders

placeholders enables placeholders for function parameters or struct fields in completion responses.

Default: false

ui.diagnostic.analyses

analyses specify analyses that the user would like to enable or disable. A map of the names of analysis passes that should be enabled/disabled. A full list of analyzers that gopls uses can be found here.

Example Usage:

...
"analyses": {
  "unreachable": false, // Disable the unreachable analyzer.
  "unusedparams": true  // Enable the unusedparams analyzer.
}
...
Properties Description
asmdecl report mismatches between assembly files and Go declarations
Default: true
assign check for useless assignments
This checker reports assignments of the form x = x or a[i] = a[i]. These are almost always useless, and even when they aren't they are usually a mistake.
Default: true
atomic check for common mistakes using the sync/atomic package
The atomic checker looks for assignment statements of the form: 
x = atomic.AddUint64(&x, 1)

which are not atomic.
Default: true
atomicalign check for non-64-bits-aligned arguments to sync/atomic functions
Default: true
bools check for common mistakes involving boolean operators
Default: true
buildtag check that +build tags are well-formed and correctly located
Default: true
cgocall detect some violations of the cgo pointer passing rules
Check for invalid cgo pointer passing. This looks for code that uses cgo to call C code passing values whose types are almost always invalid according to the cgo pointer sharing rules. Specifically, it warns about attempts to pass a Go chan, map, func, or slice to C, either directly, or via a pointer, array, or struct.
Default: true
composites check for unkeyed composite literals
This analyzer reports a diagnostic for composite literals of struct types imported from another package that do not use the field-keyed syntax. Such literals are fragile because the addition of a new field (even if unexported) to the struct will cause compilation to fail.
As an example, 
err = &net.DNSConfigError{err}

should be replaced by: 
err = &net.DNSConfigError{Err: err}


Default: true
copylocks check for locks erroneously passed by value
Inadvertently copying a value containing a lock, such as sync.Mutex or sync.WaitGroup, may cause both copies to malfunction. Generally such values should be referred to through a pointer.
Default: true
deepequalerrors check for calls of reflect.DeepEqual on error values
The deepequalerrors checker looks for calls of the form:
reflect.DeepEqual(err1, err2)
where err1 and err2 are errors. Using reflect.DeepEqual to compare errors is discouraged.
Default: true
errorsas report passing non-pointer or non-error values to errors.As
The errorsas analysis reports calls to errors.As where the type of the second argument is not a pointer to a type implementing error.
Default: true
fieldalignment find structs that would use less memory if their fields were sorted
This analyzer find structs that can be rearranged to use less memory, and provides a suggested edit with the optimal order.
Note that there are two different diagnostics reported. One checks struct size, and the other reports "pointer bytes" used. Pointer bytes is how many bytes of the object that the garbage collector has to potentially scan for pointers, for example: 
struct { uint32; string }

have 16 pointer bytes because the garbage collector has to scan up through the string's inner pointer. 
struct { string; *uint32 }

has 24 pointer bytes because it has to scan further through the *uint32. 
struct { string; uint32 }

has 8 because it can stop immediately after the string pointer.

Default: false
fillreturns suggested fixes for "wrong number of return values (want %d, got %d)"
This checker provides suggested fixes for type errors of the type "wrong number of return values (want %d, got %d)". For example: 
func m() (int, string, *bool, error) {
	return
}
will turn into 
func m() (int, string, *bool, error) {
	return 0, "", nil, nil
}

This functionality is similar to https://github.com/sqs/goreturns.

Default: true
fillstruct note incomplete struct initializations
This analyzer provides diagnostics for any struct literals that do not have any fields initialized. Because the suggested fix for this analysis is expensive to compute, callers should compute it separately, using the SuggestedFix function below.

Default: true
httpresponse check for mistakes using HTTP responses
A common mistake when using the net/http package is to defer a function call to close the http.Response Body before checking the error that determines whether the response is valid: 
resp, err := http.Head(url)
defer resp.Body.Close()
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}
// (defer statement belongs here)

This checker helps uncover latent nil dereference bugs by reporting a diagnostic for such mistakes.
Default: true
ifaceassert detect impossible interface-to-interface type assertions
This checker flags type assertions v.(T) and corresponding type-switch cases in which the static type V of v is an interface that cannot possibly implement the target interface T. This occurs when V and T contain methods with the same name but different signatures. Example: 
var v interface {
	Read()
}
_ = v.(io.Reader)

The Read method in v has a different signature than the Read method in io.Reader, so this assertion cannot succeed.

Default: true
loopclosure check references to loop variables from within nested functions
This analyzer checks for references to loop variables from within a function literal inside the loop body. It checks only instances where the function literal is called in a defer or go statement that is the last statement in the loop body, as otherwise we would need whole program analysis.
For example: 
for i, v := range s {
	go func() {
		println(i, v) // not what you might expect
	}()
}

See: https://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#closures_and_goroutines
Default: true
lostcancel check cancel func returned by context.WithCancel is called
The cancellation function returned by context.WithCancel, WithTimeout, and WithDeadline must be called or the new context will remain live until its parent context is cancelled. (The background context is never cancelled.)
Default: true
nilfunc check for useless comparisons between functions and nil
A useless comparison is one like f == nil as opposed to f() == nil.
Default: true
nilness check for redundant or impossible nil comparisons
The nilness checker inspects the control-flow graph of each function in a package and reports nil pointer dereferences, degenerate nil pointers, and panics with nil values. A degenerate comparison is of the form x==nil or x!=nil where x is statically known to be nil or non-nil. These are often a mistake, especially in control flow related to errors. Panics with nil values are checked because they are not detectable by 
if r := recover(); r != nil {

This check reports conditions such as: 
if f == nil { // impossible condition (f is a function)
}

and: 
p := &v
...
if p != nil { // tautological condition
}

and: 
if p == nil {
	print(*p) // nil dereference
}

and: 
if p == nil {
	panic(p)
}


Default: false
nonewvars suggested fixes for "no new vars on left side of :="
This checker provides suggested fixes for type errors of the type "no new vars on left side of :=". For example: 
z := 1
z := 2
will turn into 
z := 1
z = 2


Default: true
noresultvalues suggested fixes for "no result values expected"
This checker provides suggested fixes for type errors of the type "no result values expected". For example: 
func z() { return nil }
will turn into 
func z() { return }


Default: true
printf check consistency of Printf format strings and arguments
The check applies to known functions (for example, those in package fmt) as well as any detected wrappers of known functions.
A function that wants to avail itself of printf checking but is not found by this analyzer's heuristics (for example, due to use of dynamic calls) can insert a bogus call: 
if false {
	_ = fmt.Sprintf(format, args...) // enable printf checking
}

The -funcs flag specifies a comma-separated list of names of additional known formatting functions or methods. If the name contains a period, it must denote a specific function using one of the following forms: 
dir/pkg.Function
dir/pkg.Type.Method
(*dir/pkg.Type).Method

Otherwise the name is interpreted as a case-insensitive unqualified identifier such as "errorf". Either way, if a listed name ends in f, the function is assumed to be Printf-like, taking a format string before the argument list. Otherwise it is assumed to be Print-like, taking a list of arguments with no format string.

Default: true
shadow check for possible unintended shadowing of variables
This analyzer check for shadowed variables. A shadowed variable is a variable declared in an inner scope with the same name and type as a variable in an outer scope, and where the outer variable is mentioned after the inner one is declared.
(This definition can be refined; the module generates too many false positives and is not yet enabled by default.)
For example: 
func BadRead(f *os.File, buf []byte) error {
	var err error
	for {
		n, err := f.Read(buf) // shadows the function variable 'err'
		if err != nil {
			break // causes return of wrong value
		}
		foo(buf)
	}
	return err
}


Default: false
shift check for shifts that equal or exceed the width of the integer
Default: true
simplifycompositelit check for composite literal simplifications
An array, slice, or map composite literal of the form: 
[]T{T{}, T{}}
will be simplified to: 
[]T{{}, {}}

This is one of the simplifications that "gofmt -s" applies.
Default: true
simplifyrange check for range statement simplifications
A range of the form: 
for x, _ = range v {...}
will be simplified to: 
for x = range v {...}

A range of the form: 
for _ = range v {...}
will be simplified to: 
for range v {...}

This is one of the simplifications that "gofmt -s" applies.
Default: true
simplifyslice check for slice simplifications
A slice expression of the form: 
s[a:len(s)]
will be simplified to: 
s[a:]

This is one of the simplifications that "gofmt -s" applies.
Default: true
sortslice check the argument type of sort.Slice
sort.Slice requires an argument of a slice type. Check that the interface{} value passed to sort.Slice is actually a slice.
Default: true
stdmethods check signature of methods of well-known interfaces
Sometimes a type may be intended to satisfy an interface but may fail to do so because of a mistake in its method signature. For example, the result of this WriteTo method should be (int64, error), not error, to satisfy io.WriterTo: 
type myWriterTo struct{...}
func (myWriterTo) WriteTo(w io.Writer) error { ... }
This check ensures that each method whose name matches one of several well-known interface methods from the standard library has the correct signature for that interface.
Checked method names include: 
Format GobEncode GobDecode MarshalJSON MarshalXML
Peek ReadByte ReadFrom ReadRune Scan Seek
UnmarshalJSON UnreadByte UnreadRune WriteByte
WriteTo


Default: true
stringintconv check for string(int) conversions
This checker flags conversions of the form string(x) where x is an integer (but not byte or rune) type. Such conversions are discouraged because they return the UTF-8 representation of the Unicode code point x, and not a decimal string representation of x as one might expect. Furthermore, if x denotes an invalid code point, the conversion cannot be statically rejected.
For conversions that intend on using the code point, consider replacing them with string(rune(x)). Otherwise, strconv.Itoa and its equivalents return the string representation of the value in the desired base.

Default: true
structtag check that struct field tags conform to reflect.StructTag.Get
Also report certain struct tags (json, xml) used with unexported fields.
Default: true
testinggoroutine report calls to (*testing.T).Fatal from goroutines started by a test.
Functions that abruptly terminate a test, such as the Fatal, Fatalf, FailNow, and Skip{,f,Now} methods of *testing.T, must be called from the test goroutine itself. This checker detects calls to these functions that occur within a goroutine started by the test. For example:
func TestFoo(t *testing.T) { go func() { t.Fatal("oops") // error: (*T).Fatal called from non-test goroutine }() }

Default: true
tests check for common mistaken usages of tests and examples
The tests checker walks Test, Benchmark and Example functions checking malformed names, wrong signatures and examples documenting non-existent identifiers.
Please see the documentation for package testing in golang.org/pkg/testing for the conventions that are enforced for Tests, Benchmarks, and Examples.
Default: true
undeclaredname suggested fixes for "undeclared name: <>"
This checker provides suggested fixes for type errors of the type "undeclared name: <>". It will insert a new statement: "<> := ".
Default: true
unmarshal report passing non-pointer or non-interface values to unmarshal
The unmarshal analysis reports calls to functions such as json.Unmarshal in which the argument type is not a pointer or an interface.
Default: true
unreachable check for unreachable code
The unreachable analyzer finds statements that execution can never reach because they are preceded by an return statement, a call to panic, an infinite loop, or similar constructs.
Default: true
unsafeptr check for invalid conversions of uintptr to unsafe.Pointer
The unsafeptr analyzer reports likely incorrect uses of unsafe.Pointer to convert integers to pointers. A conversion from uintptr to unsafe.Pointer is invalid if it implies that there is a uintptr-typed word in memory that holds a pointer value, because that word will be invisible to stack copying and to the garbage collector.
Default: true
unusedparams check for unused parameters of functions
The unusedparams analyzer checks functions to see if there are any parameters that are not being used.
To reduce false positives it ignores: - methods - parameters that do not have a name or are underscored - functions in test files - functions with empty bodies or those with just a return stmt
Default: false
unusedresult check for unused results of calls to some functions
Some functions like fmt.Errorf return a result and have no side effects, so it is always a mistake to discard the result. This analyzer reports calls to certain functions in which the result of the call is ignored.
The set of functions may be controlled using flags.
Default: true
unusedwrite checks for unused writes
The analyzer reports instances of writes to struct fields and arrays that are never read. Specifically, when a struct object or an array is copied, its elements are copied implicitly by the compiler, and any element write to this copy does nothing with the original object.
For example: 
type T struct { x int }
func f(input []T) {
	for i, v := range input {  // v is a copy
		v.x = i  // unused write to field x
	}
}

Another example is about non-pointer receiver: 
type T struct { x int }
func (t T) f() {  // t is a copy
	t.x = i  // unused write to field x
}


Default: false

ui.diagnostic.annotations

(Experimental) annotations specifies the various kinds of optimization diagnostics that should be reported by the gc_details command.

Properties Description
bounds "bounds" controls bounds checking diagnostics.

Default: true
escape "escape" controls diagnostics about escape choices.

Default: true
inline "inline" controls diagnostics about inlining choices.

Default: true
nil "nil" controls nil checks.

Default: true

ui.diagnostic.diagnosticsDelay

(Advanced) diagnosticsDelay controls the amount of time that gopls waits after the most recent file modification before computing deep diagnostics. Simple diagnostics (parsing and type-checking) are always run immediately on recently modified packages.

This option must be set to a valid duration string, for example "250ms".

Default: "250ms"

ui.diagnostic.experimentalWatchedFileDelay

(Experimental) experimentalWatchedFileDelay controls the amount of time that gopls waits for additional workspace/didChangeWatchedFiles notifications to arrive, before processing all such notifications in a single batch. This is intended for use by LSP clients that don't support their own batching of file system notifications.

This option must be set to a valid duration string, for example "100ms".

Default: "0s"

ui.diagnostic.staticcheck

(Experimental) staticcheck enables additional analyses from staticcheck.io.

Default: false

ui.documentation.hoverKind

hoverKind controls the information that appears in the hover text. SingleLine and Structured are intended for use only by authors of editor plugins.
Allowed Options:

  • FullDocumentation
  • NoDocumentation
  • SingleLine
  • Structured: "Structured" is an experimental setting that returns a structured hover format. This format separates the signature from the documentation, so that the client can do more manipulation of these fields.
    This should only be used by clients that support this behavior.
  • SynopsisDocumentation

Default: "FullDocumentation"

ui.documentation.linkTarget

linkTarget controls where documentation links go. It might be one of:

  • "godoc.org"
  • "pkg.go.dev"

If company chooses to use its own godoc.org, its address can be used as well.

Default: "pkg.go.dev"

ui.documentation.linksInHover

linksInHover toggles the presence of links to documentation in hover.

Default: true

ui.navigation.importShortcut

importShortcut specifies whether import statements should link to documentation or go to definitions.
Allowed Options: Both, Definition, Link

Default: "Both"

ui.navigation.symbolMatcher

(Advanced) symbolMatcher sets the algorithm that is used when finding workspace symbols.
Allowed Options: CaseInsensitive, CaseSensitive, Fuzzy

Default: "Fuzzy"

ui.navigation.symbolStyle

(Advanced) symbolStyle controls how symbols are qualified in symbol responses.

Example Usage:

"gopls": {
...
  "symbolStyle": "dynamic",
...
}

Allowed Options:
  • Dynamic: "Dynamic" uses whichever qualifier results in the highest scoring match for the given symbol query. Here a "qualifier" is any "/" or "." delimited suffix of the fully qualified symbol. i.e. "to/pkg.Foo.Field" or just "Foo.Field".
  • Full: "Full" is fully qualified symbols, i.e. "path/to/pkg.Foo.Field".
  • Package: "Package" is package qualified symbols i.e. "pkg.Foo.Field".

Default: "Dynamic"

ui.semanticTokens

(Experimental) semanticTokens controls whether the LSP server will send semantic tokens to the client.

Default: false

verboseOutput

(For Debugging) verboseOutput enables additional debug logging.

Default: false