It noticed a weird thing with Go templates when I try to use Funcs
and FuncMap
. The following code works as expected:
buffer := bytes.N
ParseFiles could probably use better documentation. A template object can have multiple templates in it and each one has a name. If you look at the implementation of ParseFiles, you see that it uses the filename as the template name inside of the template object. So, name your file the same as the template object, (probably not generally practical) or else use ExecuteTemplate instead of just Execute.
you need to first parse all the files and execute them .you cannot direclty access all the files .
Sonia's answer is technically correct but left me even more confused. Here's how I eventually got it working:
t, err := template.New("_base.html").Funcs(funcs).ParseFiles("../view/_base.html", "../view/home.html")
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprint(w, "Error:", err)
fmt.Println("Error:", err)
return
}
err = t.Execute(w, data)
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprint(w, "Error:", err)
fmt.Println("Error:", err)
}
The name of the template is the bare filename of the template, not the complete path. Execute
will execute the default template provided it's named to match, so there's no need to use ExecuteTemplate
.
In this case, _base.html
file is the outermost container, eg:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><body>
<h1>{{ template "title" }}</h1>
{{ template "content" }}
</body></html>
while home.html
defines the specific parts:
{{ define "title" }}Home{{ end }}
{{ define "content" }}
Stuff
{{ end }}