Import package & type

Question

Here is my problem and my project structure

src
|-->config
       |--> config.go
|-->otherPackage
       |--> otherFile.go
|-->main.go


        

Answer 1

You cannot "import from a package". All you can do is "import the whole package". That means if you import "full/import/path/of/foo" and that package declared itself to be called foo via package foo at the beginning, then everything in this package has to be qualified by foo:

foo.Config

If you package is called config than declaring a variable config will shaddow the whole package: so you have to:

1. Rename the config variable to e.g. cfg
2. Reference Config from package config with its qualified name config.Config