pacdiff is a golang package differ. The intent is to provide utility beyond
diff when comparing two similar packages; think a db model and an api model.
These are two packages that represent the state of your application, that must
be kept in sync.
- diff packages by parsing the code
- basic diffing functionality, with JSON encoded serialization format
- unified diff output
- new serialization format?
- I think the issue I'm having is that the current JSON encoding, while it's easy to parse, isn't super intuitive for a person to read. That's not necessarily an issue if the serialization is only for snapshot testing. But if I want the snapshot tests to be readable in their own right I want to keep evaluating this.
- provide snapshot testing by storing diffs in a readable format that can be checked into version control
- code generation that converts models between the two packages via //go:generate tags