When using a jinja2 template such as this
A
{%- if flag == "0" %}
X
{%- elif flag == "1" %}
Y
{%- endif %}
B
my intuitive goal would be, whatever A,B,X,Y are, to simply "insert the contents X,Y between A,B".
This means I'd expect for flag=0,1,2 the following results:
A
X
B
A
Y
B
A
B
Note that A,B,X,Y are not jinja2 variables, they are placeholders for static text in the template, which, however,
could also consist of multiple lines.
I seek for a general syntax which satisfies my above expectation for any A,X,Y,B,
i.e. if I edit the contents of the fields A,X,Y,B I do not want to touch the syntax.
The syntax given above does not fulfill this requirement, if the fields A,B,X,Y have newlines in their surrounding,
e.g. if I change it to
a
{%- if flag == "0" %}
x
{%- elif flag == "1" %}
y
y
{%- endif %}
b
(now a,b,x,y are real characters, placeholder Y has multiple lines and ends with an empty line)
it will produce for flag=1 the output
a
y
y
b
while according to my expectation I want this output
a
y
y
b
As I work with a newline-senstive target-language, I would now have to adopt the template syntax again.
So I seek a general template syntax of the following form
A
{????}
X
{????}
Y
{????}
B
which works for any placeholders A,B,X,Y. In this form, jinja2 tags and target placeholders are required to be on separate lines.
What I tried so far:
Playing with my initial template (switching 6 minus signs and adding some newlines at 4 positions) I generated 2^10 = 1024 possible templates.
10 of them only work for A,B,X,Y without newlines, with newlines, none of them does.
The problem seems to be, that using {%- syntax after Y removes the newline before the { (wanted) but at the same time removes the trailing spaces of Y (not wanted)
Considering the question title, I know that it is not clearly distinguishable if a newline is "caused" by a tag or static text, but this was the best I could come up with.
I want jinja2 syntax and target language code on separate lines is
Use lstrip_blocks=true, trim_blocks=true options.
Without them, it is not possible. Patch jinja2 or use something else.
That would be:
A
{% if flag == "0" %}X
{% elif flag == "1" %}Y
{% endif %}B
and:
a
{% if flag == "0" %}x
{% elif flag == "1" %} y
y
{% endif %}b
I sometimes do:
a
{% if flag == "0"
%}x
{% elif flag == "1"
%} y
y
{% endif
%}b
Bottom line you are searching for lstrip_blocks=true, trim_blocks=true jinja2 template options.