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Buildout recipe to generate a text file from a template

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Introduction

This recipe can be used to generate textfiles from a (text) template. Different to collective.recipe.template you can also specify a path to the output file and the path will be created, if it does not exist.

A short example:

[buildout]
parts = zope.conf

[message]
recipe = collective.recipe.template
input = templates/message.in
output = ${buildout:parts-directory}/etc/message

mymessage = Hello, World!

In the template you can use the exact same variables as you can use in the buildout configuration. For example an input file can look like this:

My top level directory is ${buildout:directory}
Executables are stored in ${buildout:bin-directory}

As an extension to the buildout syntax you can reference variables from the current buildout part directly. For example:

My message is: ${mymessage}

Why another template recipe?

Both iw.recipe.template and inquant.recipe.textfile claim to do the same thing. I have found them to be undocumented and too buggy for real world use, and neither are in a public repository where I could fix them. In addition this implementation leverages the buildout variable substitution code, making it a lot simpler.

collective.recipe.template actually lacks support for creating paths of target files to be generated (and tests).

Detailed Description

Simple creation of a file out of a template

Lets create a minimal buildout.cfg file:

>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... '''
... [buildout]
... parts = template
... offline = true
...
... [template]
... recipe = z3c.recipe.template
... input = template.in
... output = template
... ''')

We create a template file:

>>> write('template.in',
... '''#
... My template knows about buildout path:
...   ${buildout:directory}
... ''')

Now we can run buildout:

>>> print system(join('bin', 'buildout')),
Installing template.

The template was indeed created:

>>> cat('template')
#
My template knows about buildout path:
.../sample-buildout

The variable buildout:directory was also substituted by a path.

Creating a template in a variable path

Lets create a minimal buildout.cfg file. This time the output should happen in a variable path:

>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... '''
... [buildout]
... parts = template
... offline = true
...
... [template]
... recipe = z3c.recipe.template
... input = template.in
... output = ${buildout:parts-directory}/template
... ''')

Now we can run buildout:

>>> print system(join('bin', 'buildout')),
Uninstalling template.
Installing template.

The template was indeed created:

>>> cat('parts', 'template')
#
My template knows about buildout path:
.../sample-buildout

Creating missing paths

If an output file should be created in a path that does not yet exist, then the missing items will be created for us:

>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... '''
... [buildout]
... parts = template
... offline = true
...
... [template]
... recipe = z3c.recipe.template
... input = template.in
... output = ${buildout:parts-directory}/etc/template
... ''')

>>> print system(join('bin', 'buildout')),
Uninstalling template.
Installing template.

Also creation of several subdirectories is supported:

>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... '''
... [buildout]
... parts = template
... offline = true
...
... [template]
... recipe = z3c.recipe.template
... input = template.in
... output = ${buildout:parts-directory}/foo/bar/template
... ''')

>>> print system(join('bin', 'buildout')),
Uninstalling template.
Installing template.

>>> cat('parts', 'foo', 'bar', 'template')
#
My template knows about buildout path:
.../sample-buildout

When changes happen to the output path, then the old path is removed on uninstall. Therefore the etc/ directory created above has vanished now:

>>> ls('parts')
d  foo

Changes

0.1 (2009-03-09)

Initial build based on collective.recipe.template

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