widgetFileReload cannot find "templates" directory when loaded from another dir

[dten]

When you have a multi package project and one of the packages uses yesod and uses widgetFileReload if you stack ghci from the project root or similar then it won't compile because a relative path is used which expect you are loading from the yesod using package's root. but in this case we're not

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yesod-1.6.0.2/docs/src/Yesod.Default.Util.html#globFile

would you be open to using pathRelativeToCabalPackage https://hackage.haskell.org/package/th-utilities-0.2.0.1/docs/TH-RelativePaths.html#v:pathRelativeToCabalPackage or something similar in yesod so that these are converted to absolute paths?

[snoyberg]

Yes, though I'd rather not add an additional dependency. Does this function fulfill the need? https://www.stackage.org/haddock/nightly-2020-08-03/file-embed-0.0.13.0/Data-FileEmbed.html#v:makeRelativeToProject

[dten]

Yes that's perfect 😁

[dten]

i tried this but it seems not to work because of course the code is in the yesod package so the paths end up relative to yesod.cabal 😓

[dten]

#1691
got something that works but had to add an alternative to globFile which remains in a Q Exp that can be evaluated outside of the yesod package