Very simple golang template engine for cli usage, using the golang template package and the template functions from sprig.
Package template implements data-driven templates for generating textual output.
Simple-generator works with JSON or YMAL as input data format only
If you have Go 1.12.x installed:
GO111MODULE=on go get -u github.com/veith/simple-generator@v1.0.0
simple-generator -d data.json -t template.xxx // renders to stdout
simple-generator -d data.json -t template.xxx > target.file
simple-generator -h // help
Usage of simple-generator:
-d string
Path to data file which contains YAML or JSON
-t string
Path to tpl file
cat ./datafile.yaml | simple-generator -t ./templates/templatefile.tmpl > targetfile.proto
simple-generator -t ./templates/templatefile.tmpl > targetfile.proto < ./datafile.json