fileContents [[]] parse?

[masterjg]

Example bit:

            template {
                data = <<-EOF
[[ fileContents "files/traefik_dynamic.yml" | indent 16 ]]
                EOF
                destination = "local/traefik_dynamic.yml"
            }

In file files/traefik_dynamic.yml I have some nomad pack dynamic operations [[ ]] but these never get parsed. How to force the parsing? Maybe there's filter to do it or argument in fileContents?

            template {
                data = <<-EOF
[[ fileContents "files/traefik_dynamic.yml" | parse??? | indent 16 ]]
                EOF
                destination = "local/traefik_dynamic.yml"
            }

[tgross]

Hi @masterjg! I'm a little unclear as to what you mean by "never get parsed". Are you expecting the file content to be treated as a Pack template file itself (i.e. recursively expanded)? In that case, you probably want to use a helper template which would be something like [[ template "traefik_dynamic" . ]]

[masterjg]

yep @tgross I kinda expected to have a filter or something to be able to parse plain string similarly to template. Main use case would be have proper file extensions so that IDEs would identify these external files properly and work with tooling based on extensions. And also having these files anywhere in pack, not restricted to single folder.

[tgross]

@masterjg if the files are in the templates directory but don't have that .tpl extension (as you want), they'll get rendered as "auxiliary files" (ref #299). You might be able to then use the HCL2 file function to load those as a template.