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structured-templates
Advanced tools
This package implements a simple templating engine for structured data, such as YAML or JSON. It is designed to be used in conjunction with any structured data format, such as JSON, YAML or TOML. It provides control elements and variable substition, all based on evaluating keys and strings.
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
data:
password: ${{ b64encode(secrets.password) }}
if(secrets.username):
username: ${{ b64encode(secrets.username) }}
for(key, value in secrets.additional.items()):
${{ key }}: ${{ b64encode(value) }}
This example demonstrates how to use the templating engine to generate a Kubernetes Secret object. The if(...)
and
for(...)
control elements are used to conditionally include keys and loop over a dictionary, respectively. The
${{ ... }}
syntax is used to evaluate expressions and substitute the result into the template.
Install the package from PyPI:
pip install structured-templates
The TemplateEngine
is the main class that is used to evaluate templates.
from structured_templates import TemplateEngine
engine = TemplateEngine()
assert engine.evaluate({"key": "${{ 1 + 1 }}"}) == {"key": 2}
Value substitution is done by evaluating an expression and substituting the result into the template. The expression can be any valid Python expression, and the result type is inserted as-is into the template. If the result is a string, the value substition can be prefixed and/or suffixed with text.
key: prefix${{ expression }}suffix
10integers: ${{ list(range(10)) }}
Attempting to substitute a non-string value into a string will raise an error.
if(<expr>)
Conditionally include keys in the parent object or items in a list. The value of this control block can only be a scalar value if the parent object is a list.
items:
- item1
- if(condition): item2
- if(condition):
- item3
- item4
May result in
items:
- item1
- item2
- item3
- item4
for(<names> in <expr>)
Iterate over the elements of an iterable. The value for this field is evaluated in the new scope. If the value is an object, the results of every loop are merged into a single object. If the value is a list, the results are concatenated. The value of this control block cannot be a scalar value.
items:
for(idx in range(2)):
${{ str(idx) }}: Number ${idx}
Results in
items:
'0': Number 0
'1': Number 1
macro(<expr>)
Define a macro that can be used in the template.
macro(inc(x)): ${{ x + 1 }}
key: ${{ inc(1) }}
Results in
key: 2
FAQs
Templating engine for structured data (no free-form text generation).
We found that structured-templates demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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