.Files empty in test context

[maxnitze]

I have a weird issue in one of my tests: I'm testing, if that I can add additional files from a given path to a template. Manually I verified, that it works. But I cannot get my tests working. The file is never added.

I then checked, what the .Files known to the current context are. To do that I added the following to my template in test:

{{- fail (printf "files = %s" $.Files) }}

When I render the chart manually the fail message shows a couple of files (README.md, .helmignore and my unittestfiles/certificates/myCustomRootCA.pem).

When I execute my tests though, the error message is "files = map[]".

Is this by design? If not, is this a known issue?

[quintush]

Hello @maxnitze,

Sorry for the delayed response.
Can you add an example of the test that is being used?

When templates are defined in the test suite, all other files (except for the partial templates) are excluded, to ensure we don't get invalid rendered charst due to required fields in not part of the tested resources.
This behaviour could conflict with the $.Files, but I'm not sure yet.

Greetings,
@quintush