Combining "templates" and "static_response" or inline templates

[Sodki (Henrique Rodrigues)]

Hi, I don’t think I’m fully grasping the concept of templates in Caddy yet. I have extensive experience with templates generally.

Question 1: Is it possible to combine “templates” and “static_response”?

Question 2: is it possible to have inline templates instead of having them in a separate file?

Ideally I would like to have a simple “hello world” type example where the “hello world” text came from a simple inline template.

Thank you

[matt (Matt Holt)]

@Sodki

Question 1: Is it possible to combine “templates” and “static_response”?

Yes! The static response can consist of a template string which will then be evaluated.

@Sodki

Question 2: is it possible to have inline templates instead of having them in a separate file?

I believe so:

template package - text/template - Go Packages

Don’t forget to set the right Content-Type of your static response.

[francislavoie]

Caddyfile example:

:80 {
	templates
	respond `This is a template: {{ placeholder "system.hostname" }}`
}

$ curl http://localhost
This is a template: francis-laptop

[Sodki (Henrique Rodrigues)]

Thank you all so much, I’ve managed to do a simple PoC that shows that what I want to do is possible. Kudos!