sact.recipe.jinjatemplate 1.0

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sact.recipe.jinjatemplate
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sact.recipe.jinjatemplate is a Buildout recipe for generating files using Jinja2 templates. It's a friendly fork of amplecode.recipe.template (not maintained).

Buildout Options
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* 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
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It is possible for a recipe option to contain one or more values, separated by whitespace. A split filter is available for when you want to iterate over the whitespace separated values in your Jinja2 template::

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

Minimal Example
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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
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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
Version 1.0 (2013-11-27)
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* Initial version