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Buildout recipe for making files out of Jinja2 templates

Project description

sact.recipe.jinjatemplate is a Buildout recipe for generating files using Jinja2 templates. It’s a friendly fork of amplecode.recipe.template (no more maintained).

Buildout Options

  • template-file (required): One or more Jinja2 template file paths.

  • target-file (required): One of more target file paths. The number of files must match the number of template files.

  • base-dir: Base directory of the Jinja2 environment. Template file paths are relative to this directory. Default is the Buildout directory.

  • target-executable: One or more boolean flags (yes|no|true|false|1|0) indicating the executability of the target files. If only one flag is given it is applied to all target files.

  • eggs: Reserved for a list of eggs, conveniently converted into a pkg_resources.WorkingSet when specified.

Additional options are simply forwarded to the templates, and options from all the other parts are made available through parts.<part-name>.<option-name> and parts[<part-name>][<option-name>].

Lists of Values

The split filter was removed in the 1.2. It is still possible for a recipe option to contain one or more values, separated by whitespace:

#!/bin/sh
{% for cmd in cmds.split() %}
   echo "{{ cmd }}"
{% endfor %}

Minimal Example

foo.txt is created from foo.txt.jinja2 without any extra options:

[buildout]
parts = foo

[foo]
recipe = sact.recipe.jinjatemplate
template-file = foo.txt.jinja2
target-file = foo.txt

Larger Example

foo.txt is created from myapp/foo.txt.jinja2, bar.sh is created from myapp/bar.sh.jinja2, the second will be executable, and both templates can utilize the additional options specified:

[buildout]
parts = foo

[foo]
recipe = sact.recipe.jinjatemplate
base-dir = myapp
template-file =
    foo.txt.jinja2
    bar.sh.jinja2
target-file =
    foo.txt
    bar.sh
target-executable =
    false
    true
project_name = Another Example
author = Me

Templating Shell Scripts

If you use this recipe to template shell scripts, it is STRONGLY recommanded to use the filter ‘shell_quote’ to avoid bad surprises:

#!/bin/sh
rm -rf -- {{ path|shell_quote }}

Version 1.2.1 (2015-01-27)

  • Fix packaging information

Version 1.2 (2015-01-23)

  • Updates tests

  • Add the ‘type’ builtin in the Environment globals

  • Update the documentation

Version 1.1 (2015-01-21)

  • Update bootstrap.py.

  • Add a ‘shell_quote’ Jinja filter.

  • Cleanup code.

  • Python3 compliance (seems to work fine with 3.4).

  • Add some python builtins like (any, all, bool, zip, sorted, len, int, min, max) available in templates.

  • Add more tests.

Version 1.0 (2013-11-27)

  • Initial version

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