rtgen

Rust Template Generator

Overview

Supported files:

• YAML
• JSON

Purpose

Inspired by Terraform, rtgen is a CLI tool to easily aggregate various files homogenous file types to create a single file. Rather than having an extremely verbose file, due to repeating object definitions, you can create a template, and "compile" to a single file, aggregating small, modularized files, to help make your codebase much more maintainable.

Usage

Follow these steps or run the example

1. Create a template. main.yaml.

greetings:
    - "{{ lookup('*') }}"

2. Create the directory /greetings
3. Create a file 2 files within this directory

esp.yaml

Hola Mundo!

eng.yaml

Hello World

4. Run rtgen -t main.yaml and you should see

greetings:
    - Hola Mundo!
    - Hello World

Example

Run make run-example-yaml to how examples/main.yaml is used as a template, and creates the output seen in output.yaml

Caveats

• JSON output, although correct, may show map objects with keys in a different order
• Currently child tempaltes cannot contain refernces other files (it will not be evaulated and is returned as an empty string)

See the docs for more info