commit 76ee896f78ca34345ce8edf1082f90ec9831cef4
author David Symonds <dsymonds@golang.org> Wed Mar 18 15:34:00 2015 +1100
committer David Symonds <dsymonds@golang.org> Thu Mar 19 11:10:07 2015 +1100
tree 994e5b015db534f42652f8bcf6bfcea32286d9a5
parent 39d15d55e9777df34cdffde4f406ab27fd2e60c0

Add a categorisation for the lint warning for unexported types in APIs.

lint.go

diff --git a/lint.go b/lint.go
index df9a802..2899b29 100644
--- a/lint.go
+++ b/lint.go
@@ -1276,7 +1276,8 @@
 			if exportedType(typ) {
 				continue
 			}
-			f.errorf(ret.Type, 0.8, "exported %s %s returns unexported type %s, which can be annoying to use",
+			f.errorf(ret.Type, 0.8, category("unexported-type-in-api"),
+				"exported %s %s returns unexported type %s, which can be annoying to use",
 				thing, fn.Name.Name, typ)
 			break // only flag one
 		}