assertgo : Conditionally compiled assertions in Go

Example

main.go:

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/arl/assertgo"
)

func main() {
	assert.True(true, "never printed")
	assert.Truef(false, "panic and printed if -debug tag on")
	fmt.Println("program end")
}

Normal run

$ go run main.go
program end

Nothing happened because assert.True() is conditionnaly compiled to a noop.

Debug run

$ go run -tags debug main.go
2016/11/02 22:43:59 --- --- Debug Assertion Failed --- --- ---
panic: sent false to assert.True

goroutine 1 [running]:
panic(0x496be0, 0xc420062200)
	/usr/local/go/src/runtime/panic.go:500 +0x1a1
github.com/arl/assertgo.True(0xc42003ff00, 0x4b5298, 0x19, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
	/home/panty/godev/src/github.com/arl/assertgo/assert.go:19 +0x13b
main.main()
	/home/panty/godev/src/github.com/arl/tagtest/main.go:10 +0x5a
exit status 2

By providing the debug tag to go build or any other go tool that accepts build tags, assert.True is conditionnaly compiled to a function that calls panic if the assertion is false.

Benchmarks

With debug flag:

$ go test -bench '.*' -run '^$' -tags debug
goos: linux
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/arl/assertgo
BenchmarkTrue-4         30000000                40.5 ns/op
BenchmarkFalse-4        30000000                38.9 ns/op
BenchmarkTruef-4        1000000000               2.90 ns/op
BenchmarkFalsef-4       300000000                5.91 ns/op
PASS
ok      github.com/arl/assertgo    8.039s

Without debug flag, noop (or close):

$ go test -bench '.*' -run '^$'
goos: linux
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/arl/assertgo
BenchmarkTrue-4         2000000000               1.82 ns/op
BenchmarkFalse-4        2000000000               1.82 ns/op
BenchmarkTruef-4        1000000000               2.53 ns/op
BenchmarkFalsef-4       1000000000               2.55 ns/op
PASS
ok      github.com/arl/assertgo    13.260s