j2y 0.1.0

Jinja2 Template CLI

Render Jinja2 templates on the command line using a YAML, JSON or HCL file as input for the render context.

Installation

j2y is installed using pip:

pip install j2y

Alternatively you can install directly from Github master branch:

pip install git+https://github.com/chaudum/j2y.git@master

Usage

By default, j2y takes a YAML file as input:

j2y template.j2 < values.yaml

Alternatively you can use JSON or HCL as input format:

j2y template.j2 -f json < values.json

j2y template.j2 -f hcl < values.hcl

Run j2y -h to see all available options.

Local Development

Bootstrapping

Create a virtualenv and install the package as develop egg:

$ python -m venv env
$ env/bin/activate
(env) $ pip install -e .

Tests

At the moment there are very simple test cases only. Test are written as native Python doctests. You can invoke them like so:

(env) $ python j2y/tests.py