rexops / rex-template-tt

Evaluate Rex templates using Template::Toolkit

NAME

Rex::Template::TT - A module to process templates with template toolkit.

VERSION

version 1.0.0

SYNOPSIS

use Rex::Template::TT;

task "blah", sub {
  file "/tmp/blah",
       content    => template("path/to/blah.template",
                                      { persons => ['bob', 'alice'] }),
       owner     => "root",
       group     => "root",
       mode      => 644
};

# to use as a default template engine
# this will make the template() function use TemplateTookit to render
# all the templates. This will also register all the known template variables
# like hostname, eth0_ip and so on.
use Rex::Ext::TemplateTookkit ':register';

DESCRIPTION

A Rex extension module to process templates with template toolkit.

AUTHORS

This module in its current publication is written by Nicolas Leclerq, based on prior work by Jan Gehring. The original version by Nicolas was published through the now-defunct Rex Recipes. Since Nicolas's version ended up being more feature-rich than Jan's, Jan gave permission to overwrite his version with Nicolas's.

• Nicolas Leclercq [email protected]
• Jan Gehring [email protected]

CONTRIBUTORS

• Erik Huelsmann [email protected]

SEE ALSO

• Template
• Rex
• http://www.template-toolkit.org/

LICENSE

The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004

rex-template-tt's Issues

Processing continues even on template expansion error

@ferki does it make sense to log an error from the Template library simply on the "info" level (and continuing)?

Rex-Template-TT/lib/Rex/Template/TT.pm

Line 51 in 8ef8d4f

|| Rex::Logger::info( $template->error(), 'error' );

On a related note: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111355 suggests that the template comes back empty on error, meaning that we really should not be overwriting the target and simply should be aborting the entire operation, meaning "log+die". Agreed?

Inconsistent Template engine construction

The two template engine instantiations in the module use different engine instantiation parameters:

Rex-Template-TT/lib/Rex/Template/TT.pm

Line 49 in cf937eb

my $template = Template->new( { ABSOLUTE => 1 } )

Rex-Template-TT/lib/Rex/Template/TT.pm

Line 75 in cf937eb

my $template = Template->new()