goimports and gofmt no longer working

[theGeekPirate]

OS: Win 10
Go: 1.9.2
VS: 1.18.0
vscode-go: 0.6.67

Notes:
They both stopped working some time last night while in the middle of working on a project.
I can run goimports and gofmt manually without any issues, and go vet as well as golint are still being run on each save.
All other extensions seem to be working correctly (including those with "on save" functionality).

Paths:
Current PATH: C:\Users\user\go\bin and C:\Users\user\go\src\Go\bin are contained within it
Current GOPATH (as per the VSC extension command): C:\Users\user\go
gofmt Location: C:\tools\go\bin\gofmt.exe as well as C:\Users\user\go\src\Go\bin\gofmt.exe
goimports Location: C:\Users\user\go\bin\goimports.exe
goreturns Location: C:\Users\user\go\bin\goreturns.exe

Output:

Finished running tool: C:\Users\user\go\bin\golint.exe
Finished running tool: C:\tools\go\bin\go.exe tool vet .
Finished running tool: C:\tools\go\bin\go.exe build -i -o C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\go-code-check project\project_sub-folder

What I've Tried:

• Adding "go.buildOnSave": "package", to my preferences (note: I have no other variables set for this extension, and had none set for it previously)
• Updating all tools used via the CLI (using go get)
• Updating all tools using this extension's built-in installer/updater
• Right-click -> Format Document
• Rebooting

What else should I be trying to correct this issue, or information can I provide for you?

Thanks!

[theGeekPirate]

Specifying "go.formatTool": "gofmt", does seem to work, while setting it to "goimports" or "goreturns" does not.

I should probably reiterate that both goimports and goreturns do work when run manually (although I don't use goreturns normally, I can confirm it at least populates my imports correctly, which is all I really care about besides the formatting).

[ramya-rao-a]

The fact that gofmt works but the other 2 dont are puzzling to me.
All the 3 tools use the same code path in the extension

Can you try setting go.useDiffForFormatting to false? We noticed that goreturns sometimes returns diff data in an incompatible format.

We did have an issue with formatting (#1333), but that was for folks on 1.19 Insiders but you are on 1.18

[theGeekPirate]

@ramya-rao-a That seems to have fixed it!

[ramya-rao-a]

Great, I am not sure of the root cause here though as to why goreturns and goimports do not return anything when run with -d

Here is the upstream issue if you are interested: sqs/goreturns#28

Closing this issue as the workaround works for you.

Happy Coding!