Specifying Two inputDir and one outputDir

[ProfessorManhattan]

Hey, I have a have bunch of files required for my repos. All of them inherit files from the common/ directory and then they also inherit files from a folder named after a variable which is available in the context.

How can I configure my .gomplate.yml so that the output directory gets all the files from the common/ directory and then also gets files from an inputDir named after a variable available in the context?

[hairyhenderson]

Hi @ProfessorManhattan, I'm not sure I understand the use-case, but from the title it seems you're trying to specify multiple inputDirs. This isn't supported. You'll need to either regroup the input templates into a single directory, or invoke gomplate multiple times.

Note that if your directory structure in the input dir doesn't match the layout you want in the output dir, you can use outputMap

[saikumar843]

Hi @hairyhenderson,

I have a very basic requirement to process multiple files from input-dir and create output-map. Following the same structure of the files in output directory and remove the .tmpl suffix from the files in input-dir

Template
Docker
Scriptsandfiles
Terraform
*.tf files
Pipelines.yaml.tmpl
Changelog.md.tmpl
Readme.md.tmpl

When I pass like gomplate --inputdir template output-map=out/{{ .in strings.ReplaceAll ".yaml.tmpl" ".yaml"}} this works only for pipelines.yaml where in .md.tmpl file also needed to be handled in the same gomplate run

Kindly provide some idea

[hairyhenderson]

@saikumar843 this looks like a different issue to what was originally reported, so probably belongs in a new discussion!

However, I think you can achieve what you're looking for by using multiple replacements:

--output-map='out/{{ .in | strings.ReplaceAll ".yaml.tmpl" ".yaml" | strings.ReplaceAll ".md.tmpl" ".md" }}'

Alternately, you could simplify take advantage of the fact that the templates are all named with .tmpl at the end, and use a single replacement to just remove it:

--output-map='out/{{ .in | strings.ReplaceAll ".tmpl" "" }}'

[saikumar843]

@hairyhenderson Thanks. I should've posted this in a separate discussion.