Why doesn't my Kedro starter prompt for input?

Question

I would like to create my own Kedro starter. I have tried to replicate the relevant portions of the pandas iris starter. I have a cookiecutter.json file with what I believe are appropriate mappings, and I have changed the repo and package directory names as well as any references to Kedro version such that they work with cookie cutter.

I am able to generate a new project from my starter with kedro new --starter=path/to/my/starter. However, the newly created project uses the default values for the project, package, and repo names, without prompting me for any input in the terminal.

Have I misconfigured something? How can I create a starter that will prompt users to override the defaults when creating new projects?

Here are the contents of cookiecutter.json in the top directory of my starter project:

{
    "project_name": "default",
    "repo_name": "{{ cookiecutter.project_name }}",
    "python_package": "{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}",
    "kedro_version": "{{ cookiecutter.kedro_version }}"
}

Answer 1

I think you may be missing prompts.yml https://github.com/quantumblacklabs/kedro/blob/main/kedro/templates/project/prompts.yml

Full instructions can be found here: https://kedro.readthedocs.io/en/stable/07_extend_kedro/05_create_kedro_starters.html