rabbah commented on a change in pull request #4093: changes to include gloang runtime URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/pull/4093#discussion_r230253245
########## File path: docs/actions-go.md ########## @@ -17,67 +17,185 @@ # --> -## Creating and invoking Go actions - -Using OpenWhisk [native actions](actions-docker.md#creating-native-actions), -you can package any executable as an action. This works for Go as an example. -As with [Docker actions](actions-docker.md), the Go executable receives a single argument -from the command line. -It is a string serialization of the JSON object representing the arguments to the action. -The program may log to `stdout` or `stderr`. -By convention, the last line of output _must_ be a stringified JSON object which represents -the result of the action. - -Here is an example Go action. +<a name="golang"/> + +# Creating and Invoking Go Actions + +The runtime `actionloop-golang-v1.11` runtime can execute actions written in the Go programming language in OpenWhisk, either as precompiled binary or compiling sources on the fly. + +## Entry Point + +The source code of an action is one or more Go source file. The entry point of the action is a function, placed in the `main` package. The default name for the main function is `Main`, but you can change it to any name you want using the `--main` switch in `wsk`. The name is however always capitalized. The function must have a specific signature, as described next. Review comment: source fileS. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services
