How to completely remove dataloaden from go.mod?

[frederikhors]

What happened?

I removed dataloaden from my project (because of this) but I'm still having dataloden in my go.mod as an indirect dependency. Why?

go 1.17

require (
  ...
  github.com/99designs/gqlgen v0.14.0
  github.com/graph-gophers/dataloader/v6 v6.0.0
  github.com/vektah/gqlparser/v2 v2.2.0
  ...
)

require (
  ...
  github.com/vektah/dataloaden v0.2.1-0.20190515034641-a19b9a6e7c9e // indirect
  ...
)

I searched in project for "dataloaden" but nothing appears except for example dir. Is this the problem?

I also tried with:

go mod why github.com/vektah/dataloaden

in my project, which shows:

# github.com/vektah/dataloaden
myProject/lib/gqlgen
github.com/99designs/gqlgen
github.com/vektah/dataloaden

What did you expect?

To remove it completely.

versions

• gqlgen version v0.14.0
• go version 1.17.3

[duckbrain]

From go help packages:

Directory and file names that begin with "." or "_" are ignored
by the go tool, as are directories named "testdata".

You could rename example to _examples. That should get all of the Go tooling to ignore the whole directory. My testing on my machine indicates that the projects inside of _examples would still function normally if directly compiled. ie: go install ./_examples/dataloader works but go install ./_examples/... will have "matched no packages"

[frederikhors]

Thanks @duckbrain.