Creating directories that do not exist

[theskipster]

Is there a way to force the creation of directories when supplying an "outputFiles:" section in gomplate.yaml?

If I use this myfile.gomplate.yaml file:

inputFiles:
  - ./legit/path/to/myfile.tmpl.yaml
outputFiles:
  - ./missing/dir/myfile.yaml

I get this error:

ERR error="failed to open output file './missing/dir/myfile.yaml' for writing: open ./missing/dir/myfile.yaml: no such file or directory"

I would like to have it create the missing directory when it generates each of the outputFiles.

[hairyhenderson]

Hi @theskipster - Happy New Year! Sorry for the slow response, I've been on vacation 😉

If you use inputDir/outputDir, gomplate will create the paths, but that isn't the behaviour for outputFiles. I'm not sure I can think of a good reason not to automatically create the output directory, and it's a bit unexpected. I'll convert this to an issue and add this as a feature.

[theskipster]

Thanks, @hairyhenderson! I don't need this much anymore, as I have moved on, but might still be useful.

[hairyhenderson]

I'll address this in #1277!