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text/template: consider broadening the set of built-in template funcs #15007

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adg opened this issue Mar 29, 2016 · 2 comments
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text/template: consider broadening the set of built-in template funcs #15007

adg opened this issue Mar 29, 2016 · 2 comments
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adg commented Mar 29, 2016

Some programs expect their users to write templates. One of these programs is docker-gen, and one of its users filed issue #14992 as they found the template language too restrictive for what they were trying to do.

As it happened, docker-gen provided the a template function to let the user do what they wanted (filter a set of structs based on the value of a field, and print something different if no structs with that field set to that specific value are found). That function is documented by the docker-gen README:

where $items $fieldPath $value: Filters an array or slice based on the values of a field path expression $fieldPath. A field path expression is a dot-delimited list of map keys or struct member names specifying the path from container to a nested value. Returns an array of items having that value.

The docker-gen program provides many such functions (see the README for the full list). Some of them are specific to docker-gen's purpose, but many of them are general purpose (such as where above).

Should we add some of these functions (or functions with similar behavior) to the built in set of template functions?

cc @robpike @bradfitz @Jonast

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robpike commented Mar 29, 2016

Counterproposal: collect some and put them in a separate but well-curated external repository.

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ghost commented Mar 30, 2016

For what it's worth, I got my info about templating from here: https://golang.org/pkg/text/template/
So whereever the actual code is added, it might be helpful if a mention of some sort would be added on that page (e.g. a link to the documentation of that additional package or something)

@bradfitz bradfitz added this to the Unplanned milestone Apr 9, 2016
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