jinja validator

[Zippy Zeppoli]

Hi List,
Is there a simple jinja validator one can use to check syntax?

Thanks.

[Tor Hveem]

I came up with the following command to do simple syntax check of jinja.

python -c 'from jinja2 import Environment as j; print j().from_string(file("init.sls").read()).render(func=lambda:None)'

Or if you want a simple script:

>>> from jinja2 import Template

>>>

>>> x = '''

... {% for username in 'foo','bar','baz' %}

... {{ username }}:

...   user.present:

...     - shell: /bin/zsh

...     - home: /home/{{ username }}

... {% endfor %}

...

... {% if 'foo' == 'bar' %}

... /tmp/bar:

...   file.touch

... {% elif 'foo' == 'foo' %}

... /tmp/foo:

...   file.touch

... {% endif %}

... '''

>>> tmpl = Template(x)

>>> print tmpl.render()

Where x is your context / variables.

2013/1/9 Zippy Zeppoli <zippyz...@gmail.com>

Hi List,
Is there a simple jinja validator one can use to check syntax?

Thanks.

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[Thomas S Hatch]

Thanks Tor. I think that a Jinja validator would be a great addition, I am thinking that it might be a good thing to make as a runner

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[Paul Traylor]

2013/1/9 Thomas S Hatch <that...@gmail.com>:

> Thanks Tor. I think that a Jinja validator would be a great addition, I am
> thinking that it might be a good thing to make as a runner

I briefly thought about this but haven't had time to test out the idea.

My thought was that you could use cp.list_master and then filter on
.sls to get the list of the state files.

Then you can try to render them with state.show_sls to look for errors.


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Paul Traylor
https://github.com/kfdm

[Thomas S Hatch]

Yes, that would work, just doing a state.show_sls will display any errors in rendering the sls formula

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[Sean Channel]

There is a Vim syntax plug-in that comes with jinja2 in /usr/share/vim/addons/syntax/jinja.vim [ubuntu precise]. You can copy that to ~/.vim/syntax in addition to the salt-vim plugins. The salt-vim plugins can be installed with:

  cd ~/.vim
  git clone https://github.com/saltstack/salt-vim.git

_S.