Cannot playground run examples for code outside stdlib

[theherk]

As it stands, when running a godoc server with the -play option, you can only run playable examples from the stdlib. This is due to playground requests being sent to the sandbox server at play.golang.org. As a result, your code, even though it exists in your GOPATH, is not found because it actually isn't running on the local machine.

There doesn't appear to be a direct route to changing this, but there are two candidates.

• Run gotour locally and proxy connections to play.golang.org back to this local playground server.
• Submit patch to go with feature to run and utilize a local playground server.

Both of these are not very straight forward. It seems like a feature that go needs, so maybe it will be worth working on. Anybody that wants to pick up the torch on such a core contribution has by bow.

References

• “cannot find package” error on godoc playable examples
• Playground and Godoc
• playground/common.go (where the request is handled)
• My own Golang Playground? (golang-nuts where local playground is suggested)