Go: Enable Testing with RC

[edlng]

We can add an option on GHA and locally to test our test suites using a release candidate instead of having to compile and build at the beginning.

Example of running on v1.3.4-rc2: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide/actions/runs/15145956032

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This Pull Request is linked to issue (URL): closes #3958

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  Signed-off-by: Edward Liang [email protected]Signed-off-by: Edward Liang [email protected]

[yipin-chen]

LGTM.
Have you verified your changes?

[edlng]

LGTM. Have you verified your changes?

Yes, I've provided a GHA run in the description that tests using an RC. The automatic GHA checks when updating or opening a PR also verify that it can compile+build the code instead

[Yury-Fridlyand]

I though it will be a part of go CD pipeline, but this idea is even better. We can run new tests with an old release.

[Yury-Fridlyand]

Suggested change

if: ${{ github.event.inputs.rc-test != 'true' }}

And this step will run tests (yes, build will be odd for RC testing)

[Yury-Fridlyand]

No need to checkout a branch. GHA already has a branch selector, but we can run new tests with an old RC with your script.

[edlng]

I think it might be required. Go mod tidy doesn't seem to work too well when things have been moved around or added. Adding the branch makes it more stable

Ex. trying to run 1.3.4-rc2 on more recent branches

go.mod has been updated
go: finding module for package github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide/go/api/server-modules/glidejson
go: finding module for package github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide/go/api/server-modules/glidejson/options
go: github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide/go-test-rc/api/server-modules/glidejson imports
        github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide/go/api/server-modules/glidejson/options: module github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide/go@latest found (v1.3.4), but does not contain package github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide/go/api/server-modules/glidejson/options
go: github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide/go-test-rc/integTest tested by
        github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide/go-test-rc/integTest.test imports
        github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide/go/api/server-modules/glidejson: module github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide/go@latest found (v1.3.4), but does not contain package github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide/go/api/server-modules/glidejson

[edlng]

but then again if we were to apply the patch and then switch to another release branch, conflicts start happening 😨