For my use case I'd like to specify the directory in full, i.e. not to be influenced by the callerPath. There are two cases I encountered for this, one is when ussing go-snaps in a goroutine, the base is $GOROOT/src/runtime; and the second when I'm using a testing framework that runs a single go test -- in my case godog, the base is $GOPATH/pkg/mod/github.com/cucumber/godog@v0.12.6.

I'd prefer if the given snapsDir was used as is, perhaps if absolute path was given?

Hey 👋 Thanks a lot for the feedback and using go-snaps. The issue with the file at least for goroutines was fixed #44. I was able to verify this should not be an issue from v0.3.7.

As for providing the directory in full I thought about it but I was a bit hesitant on how it would work with the Clean. I like idea of the absolute and I ll play a bit with it as I can see people wanting to use it.

As for the godog unfortunately I am not really familiar with it. I would appreciate if you can share a snippet so I can potentially try and support it regardless of the snapsDir configuration.

Hello, thanks for considering this!

I've created an example if I run go test example_test this is what I get:

go test example_test.go 
Feature: example feature

  Scenario: example scenario     # features/example.feature:3
    Then expect snapshot "hello" # example_test.go:40 -> command-line-arguments.verifySnapshot
    mkdir /home/zregvart/.asdf/installs/golang/1.19.5/packages/pkg/mod/github.com/cucumber/godog@v0.12.6/__snapshots__: permission denied

--- Failed steps:

  Scenario: example scenario # features/example.feature:3
    Then expect snapshot "hello" # features/example.feature:4
      Error: mkdir /home/zregvart/.asdf/installs/golang/1.19.5/packages/pkg/mod/github.com/cucumber/godog@v0.12.6/__snapshots__: permission denied


1 scenarios (1 failed)
1 steps (1 failed)
217.55µs
--- FAIL: TestFeatures (0.00s)
    --- FAIL: TestFeatures/example_scenario (0.00s)
        suite.go:451: mkdir /home/zregvart/.asdf/installs/golang/1.19.5/packages/pkg/mod/github.com/cucumber/godog@v0.12.6/__snapshots__: permission denied
    example_test.go:61: non-zero status returned, failed to run feature tests
FAIL
FAIL	command-line-arguments	0.007s
FAIL

It seems to me supporting godog, and in general other similar testing frameworks that abstract away the testing framework might be a challenge -- so thank you for taking an interest and investing time into this.

For my use case, I've configured to use the version from this branch and I've resorted to using tricks to point to the directory where I want the snapshots to be created.