Question: How can I specify a specific template for a specific method (with different routes), if they are in different folders and named the same?
Descript:
I have two tables in Database, Users and Agency with different fields for example. For each of them I've made router for list objects by SELECT function. Router:
r := mux.NewRouter() // gorilla/mux
r.HandleFunc("/user", handlers.UserList).Methods("GET")
r.HandleFunc("/agency", handlers.AgencyList).Methods("GET")
where handlers is a struct with database pointer and templates,
type Handler struct {
DB *sql.DB
Tmpl *template.Template
}
and it's have a methods for catching responses:
func (h *Handler) AgencyList(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
Agencys := []*Agency{}
rows, err := h.DB.Query(`SELECT Id, Name, IsActive FROM Agencys`)
// etc code for append objects into Agencys and error handling
err = h.Tmpl.ExecuteTemplate(w, "index.html", struct{ Agencys []*Agency }{Agencys: Agencys})
// etc code and error handling
}
Same principles in handling Users list function. This handler have also methods for GET (one object) POST and DELETE methods, and for each of them I need specific template for working (for editing etc). So. In this example I have directory templates, where I have two sub-directories "user" and "agency" with files index.html (for listing objects) for each "subject" (user and agency).
templates\
\agency
--\edit.html
--\index.html
... etc htmls for agency
\user
--\edit.html
--\index.html
... etc htmls for users
... etc dirs for other DB-objects
And I'm using this:
func main() {
handlers := &handler.Handler{
DB: db,
Tmpl: template.Must(template.ParseGlob("templates/*.html")), // for root templates
}
// next code is avoid panic: read templates/agency: is a directory
template.Must(handlers.Tmpl.ParseGlob("templates/user/*.html"))
template.Must(handlers.Tmpl.ParseGlob("templates/agency/*.html"))
r := mux.NewRouter()
r.HandleFunc("/", handlers.Index).Methods("GET") // root
r.HandleFunc("/user", handlers.UserList).Methods("GET")
r.HandleFunc("/agency", handlers.AgencyList).Methods("GET")
// etc code with ListenAndServe()
}
After all I catched error in template like
template: index.html:26:12: executing "index.html" at <.Agencys>: can't evaluate field Agencys in type struct { Users []*handler.User }
when I trying call localhost/user listing in browser (because it's different 'objects' with different fields, of course). Looks like ParseGlob(agency/) redefine tepmlates with same names after ParseGlob(user/)
I'm trying find solution like this:
err = h.Tmpl.ExecuteTemplate(w, "templates/user/index.html", post)
in method UserList() for pointing which template needs.
Maybe that's all is not good solution; maybe will be good, if I shall use prefixes in template's names (like listAgency.html and listUser.html in templates dir) instead of different directories for each object like now. I tried this way, but that looks not so pretty and beauty.
