Not able to deploy with Go 1.12+

[cantrellryan]

We've been running this app for the last couple of years with great success. I saw the recent updates to the project to support running on Go 1.12+ but am unable to to deploy it successfully.

After doing some digging it appears that the issue is that the package "appengine" is deprecated with Go 1.12. Is there a way to deploy with 1.12 or 1.13 or does that require a re-write of the main app?

[hwdsl2]

There are a few other changes needed for deploying with Go 1.12+, such as the required "main" package (unable to deploy without "package main") and changes in dependency management. See [1]. A rewrite of at least part of the application will likely be needed.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/go-differences

[cantrellryan]

Yeah, saw that and was able to get past that by renaming the package. But the next steps were beyond my skillset unfortunately.

[aravind-j]

I have added main.go as suggested in https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/go-differences#migrating-appengine-sdk. But now with gcolud app deploy it shows the root of you app needs to be package "main" (currently "beacon").

[alokc83]

@aravind-j in your go file, you need to add package main also, add this method after init

func main() {
        http.HandleFunc("/", indexHandler)

        port := os.Getenv("PORT")
        if port == "" {
                port = "8080"
                log.Printf("Defaulting to port %s", port)
        }

        log.Printf("Listening on port %s", port)
        if err := http.ListenAndServe(":"+port, nil); err != nil {
                log.Fatal(err)
        }
}

but it is failing on appengine import I have no idea how to fix that

[alokc83]

@igrigorik I know you are busy. Do you mind adding new deployment instructions

[igrigorik]

Resolved via https://github.com/igrigorik/ga-beacon/commit/ebbc061431ac203109eb058be300803302bbc72b