Reflection-based template walking

Rather than deriving the identity of template variables by string parsing the
name, identify its relationship to the underlying struct using reflection.

Signed-off-by: Jonathon Anderson <janderson@ciq.com>
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Jonathon Anderson
2025-12-04 00:26:03 -07:00
parent 29136e17d4
commit 4e67db0be6
5 changed files with 451 additions and 118 deletions

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@@ -324,32 +324,6 @@ type TemplateVarDetails struct {
LongOpt string
}
// Type to sore a map which looks and feels like the variables in a template
type TemplateVarMap map[string]TemplateVarDetails
// Fill the map so that every key is like a template variable and the value is the comment field
func (varMap TemplateVarMap) ConfToTemplateMap(obj interface{}, prefix string) {
objType := reflect.TypeOf(obj)
// now iterate of every field
for i := 0; i < objType.NumField(); i++ {
field := objType.Field(i)
if field.Type.Kind() == reflect.Ptr && field.Type.Elem().Kind() == reflect.Struct {
varMap.ConfToTemplateMap(reflect.New(field.Type.Elem()).Elem().Interface(), field.Name)
} else if field.Type.Kind() == reflect.Map && field.Type.Elem().Kind() == reflect.Ptr {
varMap.ConfToTemplateMap(reflect.New(field.Type.Elem().Elem()).Elem().Interface(), field.Name)
} else if field.Type.Kind() == reflect.Struct && field.Anonymous {
varMap.ConfToTemplateMap(reflect.New(field.Type).Elem().Interface(), field.Name)
} else {
varMap[prefix+"."+field.Name] = TemplateVarDetails{
Name: field.Name,
Comment: field.Tag.Get("comment"),
Type: field.Type.Name(),
LongOpt: field.Tag.Get("lopt"),
}
}
}
}
/*
Returns the id of the node
*/