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cmd/cover: Add flag to select browser for go tool cover -html #10365

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ChimeraCoder opened this issue Apr 7, 2015 · 5 comments
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cmd/cover: Add flag to select browser for go tool cover -html #10365

ChimeraCoder opened this issue Apr 7, 2015 · 5 comments
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Currently, go tool cover-html=coverage.out appears to use xdg-open on Linux, which doesn't always select the right browser. Even if the $BROWSER environment variable is set, the cover tool doesn't always select the right browser.

Figuring out the right browser to open is tricky, and even xdg-open doesn't always get this right. It'd therefore be helpful if the cover tool either accepts a flag to specify the browser, and/or perhaps use the $BROWSER environment variable if defined.

(This is related to #10259 in that the fix is probably the same, but it affects the coverage tool too.)
@mikioh mikioh changed the title Add flag to select browser for go tool cover -html cmd/cover: Add flag to select browser for go tool cover -html Apr 8, 2015
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robpike commented Apr 8, 2015

Seems to me the place to fix this is in xdg-open. I don't want our tools to have more configuration to support broken operating systems.

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cespare commented Apr 8, 2015

Note that in this case, xdg-open is not even picking a working browser for @ChimeraCoder, rendering cover -html unusable. (From discussion on IRC.)

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robpike commented Apr 8, 2015

Regardless, I think it's wrong to build os-specific hacks into every tool that wants to talk to a browser (or any other tool) when that is the os's responsibility. I can think of many ways to fix this that do not involve changing the cover tool.

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dherbst commented Apr 15, 2015

You can use the flag -o to Write out an HTML file instead of launching a web browser and then use the web browser to open the file.

go tool cover -html=c.out -o coverage.html

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@dherbst Thanks, this is a good workaround.

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