Add globbing pattern matching for search_path (Replaces #179)

[anya004]

Fixes #165

This PR adds support for glob patterns, controlled by a new globbing flag. When enabled (-globbing), the tool will use glob pattern matching to locate files and directories.

I decided to implement a flag so that the user is aware of the behaviour in case they have some unconventional filenames.

When globbing is enabled, matched paths are dynamically added to the searchPath array for further processing.

[kehoecj]

Can't get globbing to work. Used the examples in the unit tests locally and they did not produce a result. Need to provide some examples section in the README and a link to glob patterns

[kehoecj]

Can't get globbing to work. Used the examples in the unit tests locally and they did not produce a result. Need to provide some examples section in the README and a link to glob patterns

[anya004]

@kehoecj were you using double quotes around the pattern string?

[kehoecj]

@kehoecj were you using double quotes around the pattern string?

@anya004

Even using double quotes I still can't seem to get this to work at all. Here's what I've tried and get no output:

• validator --globbing "/test/**/*.json"
• `validator --globbing "/test/fixtures/subdir2/*.json"

If I point directly to the file it does run correctly:

validator --globbing "/test/fixtures/subdir2/good.json"
    ✓ /test/fixtures/subdir2/good.json

[kehoecj]

@kehoecj were you using double quotes around the pattern string?

@anya004

Even using double quotes I still can't seem to get this to work at all. Here's what I've tried and get no output:

• validator --globbing "/test/**/*.json"
• `validator --globbing "/test/fixtures/subdir2/*.json"

If I point directly to the file it does run correctly:

validator --globbing "/test/fixtures/subdir2/good.json"
    ✓ /test/fixtures/subdir2/good.json

@anya004 Any guidance on this?

[anya004]

Hey @kehoecj !

To be honest, I was running it as go run cmd/validator/validator.go --reporter=json -globbing "test/**/*.json"

Now I have also tried creating a standalone executable with go build -o validatordev in the cmd/validator folder. After which, I was able to run ./cmd/validator/validatordev -globbing "test/**/*.json" and it produces the expected output.

Did I miss a step of creating an executable somewhere? I am new to go projects and would appreciate your guidance!

Maybe you could also try running echo "test/**/*.json" in your environment to see what that responds with?

> echo "test/**/*.json"
> test/**/*.json

[anya004]

@kehoecj have you had a chance to check the output?

[kehoecj]

@kehoecj have you had a chance to check the output?

It's working now, approved!

[kehoecj]

LGTM @anya004 , thanks for the PR!