simple-generator

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simple-generator

Very simple golang template engine for cli usage, using the golang template package and the template functions from sprig.

Package template implements data-driven templates for generating textual output.

Simple-generator works with JSON or YMAL as input data format only

Dokumentation

• Build web application with Golang, 7.4 Templates
• sprig, Useful template functions for Go templates

Install

If you have Go 1.12.x installed:

GO111MODULE=on go get -u github.com/theNorstroem/simple-generator@v1.0.2

Usage

 simple-generator -d data.json -t template.xxx // renders to stdout
 simple-generator -d data.json -t template.xxx > target.file
 
 simple-generator -h  // help 
 Usage of simple-generator:
   -d string
          Path to data file which contains YAML or JSON
   -t string
          Path to tpl file

Example

Watch out the example data in /sample

simple-generator -d ./sample/values.yaml -t ./sample/example.tmpl // renders to stdout

Usage with stdin

 cat ./datafile.yaml | simple-generator -t ./templates/templatefile.tmpl > targetfile.proto

 simple-generator -t ./templates/templatefile.tmpl > targetfile.proto < ./datafile.json