VERSION	DOWNLOADS	TESTS	COVERAGE

STILL UNDER HEAVY DEVELOPMENT

Checkout the repository.

Goal and Philosophy

Manages templates to allow projects inception.

I'm tired of doing repetitive steps whenever I create a new project: configure Travis, add the .gitignore, create a new setup.py, etc. So I decided to automate it. And I want anybody can contribute with templates without any Python knowledge.

This project is in its first stages, so do not be too tidy.

How to use it

Installation

From pypi:

pip install inception

From the main repository:

git clone https://github.com/magmax/inception.git

Usage

As easy as:

python inception/__main__.py --template-path TEMPLATE -o OUTPUT_PATH

Template creation

The idea is to maintain easy but powerful templates. Learning Python is not required, but useful.

To create a new template, there is just one requirement: the settings.py file.

settings.py file

This file contains the settings to rule the inception. It will contains some variables (just Python_ vars).

The main one is program, that is a vector. here you have an example:

# as vector
program = [
    inquire(),
    copy(),
]

Any operation inside the program vector is a "promise". This means it won't be evaluated until it is called later.

There are several preloaded promises, but you can write your own. We will come back to this later.

inquire promise

Requires information from the user.

As parameter, you can pass an array of Questions, as it is defined in inquirer. If no argument is supplied, it will try to get the QUESTIONS variable from the settings file.

Next examples are equivalent:

QUESTIONS = [
    { "kind": "text",
      "name": "name",
      "message": "What's your name"
    },
]

program = [
    inquire(),
]

QUESTIONS = [
    { "kind": "text",
      "name": "name",
      "message": "What's your name"
    },
]

program = [
    inquire(QUESTIONS),
]

program = [
    inquire([
        { "kind": "text",
          "name": "name",
          "message": "What's your name"
        },
    ]),
]

copy promise

This promise will copy some directory structure from our templates to the output directory. The directory structure will be copied as is, this means you will have to repeat the whole tree you want to build.

It allows an argument, that is the directory to be used as source. If no argument is supplied, files will be used.

If any file ends with .jinja, it will be managed as a jinja template, replacing any variable inside with any variable taken with the inquire promise.

This structure is valid for file names too.

Structures examples:

.
├── files
│   └── level_1
│       └── level_2
│           ├── example1.txt
│           ├── example2.txt.jinja
│           └── {{ name }}.txt
└── settings.py

with name="example3" will produce:

output
└── level_1
    └── level_2
        ├── example1.txt
        ├── example2.txt
        └── example3.txt

Existing files won't be overriden.

run promise

Executes any command line script. The script should be provided as first argument. Example:

program = [
    run('virtualenv venv'),
]

Pipes are not allowed.

Creating your own promises

Python knowledge is required to do this.

They can be defined inside the settings.py module or to be imported from other modules in the settings.py

A promise is just a function returning another function. Inner function should match the pattern:

def inner(config, template_path, output):
    pass

There are two ways to do this: with functions or classes.

Function promises

An example is better than a thausand words:

def my_promise(argument_1, argument_2):
    def inner(config, template_path, output):
        # do whatever with argument_1, argument_2, and the others
        pass
    return inner

Class promises

Same example:

class my_promise(object):
    def __init__(self, argument_1, argument_2):
        self._arg1 = argument_1
        self._arg2 = argument_2

    def __call__(self, config, template_path, output):
        # do whatever with argument_1, argument_2, and the others
        pass

Promises usage

Both class and function promises are used in the same way:

program = [
    my_promise('argument_1', 'argument_2')
]

To do list

Things I'd like to add to inception:

• a Downloader class, that retrieves the package from github.
• a file with the list of available templates, to use its name instead its directory. This will allow to improve the Downloader class.
• better output
• tests.
• debianize it.

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Miguel Ángel García (@magmax9).

Licensed under the MIT license.