Merge pull request #4 from defencedigital/changes

Changes

1 files changed, 48 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cmd/web/templates.go b/cmd/web/templates.go
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+package main
+
+import (
+	"html/template"
+	"path/filepath"
+
+	"github.com/defencedigital/ded-web/internal/models"
+)
+
+// TODO: At the moment we are using a struct will have fields for all the data
+// we will need. Not sure whether this is good or bad at the moment.
+type templateData struct {
+	Operations    []models.Operation
+	Organisations []models.Organisation
+	Persons       []models.Person
+}
+
+func newTemplateCache() (map[string]*template.Template, error) {
+	cache := map[string]*template.Template{}
+
+	// get a slice of filepaths match the pattern for our page templates
+	// e.g. [ui/html/pages/home.tmpl.html ui/html/pages/view.tmpl.html]
+	pages, err := filepath.Glob("./ui/html/pages/*.html")
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// loop through the page filepaths one by one
+	for _, page := range pages {
+		// extract "home.tmp.html" from the full filepath.
+		name := filepath.Base(page)
+
+		files := []string{
+			"./ui/html/base.tmpl.html",
+			"./ui/html/partials/nav.tmpl.html",
+			page,
+		}
+
+		ts, err := template.ParseFiles(files...)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
+		cache[name] = ts
+	}
+
+	return cache, nil
+}