I am having an issue with getting the "html/template" package to parse a template properly. I am trying to parse in HTML content to a template page that I have made, however, when I try, the parsed page ends up with the escaped HTML instead of the actual code I want.
The Go documentation says I can simply use the HTML() function to convert a string into a type HTML, which is known to be safe and should be parsed in as HTML. I have made my Content field in my type Page a template.HTML, which compiles just fine, but when I use the template.HTML(content) function in line 53, I get a compiler error saying:
template.HTML undefined (type *"html/template".Template has no field or method HTML)
Using HTML(content) (without the preceding template.) results in this error:
undefined: HTML
My end goal is to have other HTML files parse into index.html and be interpreted by the browser as HTML.
Any help is appreciated.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"html/template"
"io"
"io/ioutil"
"net/http"
"regexp"
"strings"
)
func staticServe() {
http.Handle(
"/assets/",
http.StripPrefix(
"/assets/",
http.FileServer(http.Dir("assets")),
),
)
}
var validPath = regexp.MustCompile("^/(|maps|documents|residents|about|source)?/$")
// This shit is messy. Clean it up.
func servePage(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
type Page struct {
Title string
Content template.HTML
}
pathCheck := validPath.FindStringSubmatch(req.URL.Path)
path := pathCheck[1]
fmt.Println(path)
if path == "" {
path = "home"
}
template, err := template.ParseFiles("index.html")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
contentByte, err := ioutil.ReadFile(path + ".html")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
content := string(contentByte)
page := Page{strings.Title(path) + " - Tucker Hills Estates", template.HTML(content)}
template.Execute(res, page)
}
// Seriously. Goddamn.
func serveSource(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
sourceByte, err := ioutil.ReadFile("server.go")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
source := string(sourceByte)
io.WriteString(res, source)
}
func main() {
go staticServe()
http.HandleFunc("/", servePage)
http.HandleFunc("/source/", serveSource)
http.ListenAndServe(":9000", nil)
}
