Creating custom jinja filters

[Radosław Piliszek]

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if Salt permits to create custom jinja filters.

I have come across the jinja_filter decorator [1] and tried applying it in my util module with no luck (it is not picked up, possibly by design).

The reason I need custom jinja filters is porting templates from Ansible. Switching to calling functions will be too tedious and make the diff considerably harder to read. Therefore, I wish to reimplement the necessary filters in my Salt hierarchy.

[1] https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/37952/files

Kind regards,

Radosław Piliszek

[Radosław Piliszek]

It has been pointed out to me that it's most likely still not possible: https://saltstackcommunity.slack.com/archives/C7K04SEJC/p1624619929105800