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text/template: The ability to output an io.Reader #25160

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smasher164 opened this issue Apr 29, 2018 · 5 comments
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text/template: The ability to output an io.Reader #25160

smasher164 opened this issue Apr 29, 2018 · 5 comments

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@smasher164
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Having the ability to templatize and concatenate multiple streams through a template would be highly useful. One can think of this as a generalization of the functionality provided by MultiReader, TeeReader, etc, except we'd have the ability to store stubs in files, and have more granular control of intermediate text and formatting.
For example, I'd like to be able to write something similar to the following:

r := // some predefined io.Reader...
t, _ := template.New("").Parse(`
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, maximum-scale=1.0">
        <link href="/static/blog.css" rel="stylesheet">
    </head>
    <body>
        {{ . }}
    </body>
</html>
`)
t.Execute(os.Stdout, r)

Currently, I have a workaround using channels, however the overhead of channel communication doesn't make it worth using.

copyReader := func(c chan<- string, r io.Reader) {
	p := make([]byte, 100)
	for {
		n, err := r.Read(p)
		c <- string(p[:n])
		if err != nil {
			close(c)
			break
		}
	}
}
r := // some predefined io.Reader...
t, _ := template.New("").Parse(`
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, maximum-scale=1.0">
        <link href="/static/blog.css" rel="stylesheet">
    </head>
    <body>
        {{range .}}{{.}}{{end}}
    </body>
</html>
`)
c := make(chan string)
go copyReader(c, r)
t.Execute(os.Stdout, c)
@mvdan
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mvdan commented Apr 29, 2018

Why not use a func in the template like ioutil.ReadAll?

@smasher164
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ioutil.ReadAll would require me to buffer all of the stream before outputting it. I'm looking for the ability to output parts of the stream, one after the other, like io.Copy.

@smasher164
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The ioutil.ReadAll solution is probably fine for most users, so it's okay to close this issue. That being said, having a more traditional looping construct would open up the template package to more stream-like use-cases. Right now, the range directive is restricted to iterable types.

@andybons
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having a more traditional looping construct would open up the template package to more stream-like use-cases. Right now, the range directive is restricted to iterable types.

Please feel free to open a proposal for your feature question per https://golang.org/s/proposal

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Change https://golang.org/cl/153339 mentions this issue: text/template: make Execute copy io.Reader content

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