// Template rendering // // Abstracts the rendering of static HTML templates. // Render(...) handles rendering the provided template with the // default partial templates (header, footer, general base...), handles // getting the paths to those template files and feeding the data (including // some internally-generated context) when hydrating the template. package main import ( "fmt" "io" "path/filepath" "text/template" "time" ) type RenderMeta struct { RenderStart time.Time } type RenderContext struct { Data interface{} Meta RenderMeta } func getRenderDuration(start time.Time) time.Duration { return time.Now().Sub(start) } func Render(w io.Writer, templateName string, data interface{}) error { asTemplatePath := func(templateName string) string { return filepath.Join("templates", fmt.Sprintf("%s.html.tmpl", templateName)) } templatePartials := []string{ asTemplatePath(templateName), asTemplatePath("base"), asTemplatePath("footer"), } start := time.Now() tmpl := template.New(templateName).Funcs(template.FuncMap{ "getRenderDuration": getRenderDuration, }) tmpl, err := tmpl.ParseFiles(templatePartials...) if err != nil { return err } renderContext := RenderContext{Data: data, Meta: RenderMeta{RenderStart: start}} return tmpl.ExecuteTemplate(w, "base", renderContext) }