Broken under Go 1.7
georgevanburgh opened this issue · comments
Go 1.7 effectively deprecates gorilla/context - as per gorilla/context#32.
gorilla/mux and other gorilla projects have already migrated to using the new standard library context package - which effectively means packages cannot mix their use of gorilla/mux and gorilla/context, as go-alexa currently does. Under Go 1.7, I get a on skillserver.go#L62, as context.Get(r, "echoRequest") returns nil.
Ugh. Compiles fine, but craps the bed in practice.
Looking at your pull request and it looks great and it's really a pretty small change, but I'm also unsure how to handle people using pre-1.7.
I guess we can merge in and then put a notice that you need 1.7 as of today.
The only semi-graceful alternative I can think of would be to abstract out
the context logic, and have two separate implementations - one for pre-1.7
(using gorilla context), and one for post (using native context), with a
conditional build tag choosing which version to include at compile time. I
guess it depends how important supporting pre-1.7 clients is to you
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Ugh. Compiles fine, but craps the bed in practice.
Looking at your pull request and it looks great and it's really a pretty
small change, but I'm also unsure how to handle people using pre-1.7.I guess we can merge in and then put a notice that you need 1.7 as of
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Because of Go's no-breaking changes policy, 1.7 should be a simple upgrade for anyone. I don't think it's terrible to "require" (obviously you can't really require it with the way go get works) 1.7.
I'll merge and add a note to the README.
Change merged in and README updated about the 1.7 requirement.
It's been a ridiculously crazy few weeks so thank you for the heads up and patch as I totally missed this!