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-rw-r--r--tools/go_marshal/gomarshal/generator.go20
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/go_marshal/gomarshal/generator.go b/tools/go_marshal/gomarshal/generator.go
index d3c2f72f5..0fa868415 100644
--- a/tools/go_marshal/gomarshal/generator.go
+++ b/tools/go_marshal/gomarshal/generator.go
@@ -380,6 +380,26 @@ func (g *Generator) writeTests(ts []*testGenerator) error {
}
// Write test functions.
+
+ // If we didn't generate any Marshallable implementations, we can't just
+ // emit an empty test file, since that causes the build to fail with "no
+ // tests/benchmarks/examples found". Unfortunately we can't signal bazel to
+ // omit the entire package since the outputs are already defined before
+ // go-marshal is called. If we'd otherwise emit an empty test suite, emit an
+ // empty example instead.
+ if len(ts) == 0 {
+ b.reset()
+ b.emit("func ExampleEmptyTestSuite() {\n")
+ b.inIndent(func() {
+ b.emit("// This example is intentionally empty to ensure this file contains at least\n")
+ b.emit("// one testable entity. go-marshal is forced to emit a test file if a package\n")
+ b.emit("// is marked marshallable, but emitting a test file with no entities results\n")
+ b.emit("// in a build failure.\n")
+ })
+ b.emit("}\n")
+ return b.write(g.outputTest)
+ }
+
for _, t := range ts {
if err := t.write(g.outputTest); err != nil {
return err