Is there a way to create a template.Template
from a string
without giving it a name?
Looking at the docs, it seems like the New(name string) is the only way to parse a template string. I wrote a helper function which generates a unique name using an iterator.
var seq chan int
func init() {
seq = make(chan int)
go func() {
for i := 0; true; i++ {
seq <- i
}
}()
}
func TemplateToString(tmplStr string, data interface{}) (string, error) {
name := fmt.Sprintf("template-%d", <-seq)
tmpl, err := template.New(name).Parse(tmplStr)
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
buffer := bytes.Buffer{}
err = tmpl.Execute(&buffer, data)
return buffer.String(), err
}
This works, but I would prefer a cleaner approach if it's possible.