FMF-Jinja#
Templating engine using jinja files and fmf metadata.
Concept#
If you’ve found this project, chances are you already know about either the FMF or Jinja project. But for the sake of redundancy:
Jinja is a popular templating engine that enables one to substitute text from JSON/YAML/Python like objects into a template file/string.
FMF is an extension to YAML files that incorporates a file structure format and inheritance of the dictionary variables from the parent path to the children.
This project combines the two such that you can maintain your metadata in a folder structure with minimal effort and generate any necessary data folder structure you desire.
Minimum example#
See example/simple
for a minimal example.
The output can then be generated using the python function fmf_jinja.template.generate
or using the cli interface fmf-jinja
:
$ fmf-jinja --root=example/simple generate --output=out
$ tree ./out
./out
├── rootA
│ ├── file.yaml
│ └── some_file.yaml
└── rootB
├── file.yaml
└── some_file.yaml
$ cat ./out/rootA/template_file.yaml
my_var: A