Support for Include Variables

[DamonOehlman]

I would like to have the ability to use "bake style" variables in the include statements. This would allow for extending a particular package types functionality with platform specific implementations. For instance, you could easily include some additional functionality for the commonjs implementation.

[giannif]

Not exactly sure what you mean by "bake style", but I'd like to be able to pass variables to the include statements.

Let's say you specify the values in a data option:

rig: {
            devel: {
                options:{
                    data:{
                       source:"src/include1.js",
                       otherSource:"src/include2"
                    }
                }
                files:....

And then in the rigged files use those vars.

//= source
//= otherSource

Perhaps they are preceded with:

//=data source

I attempted to do this in a plugin, but the plugins don't have access to options, I don't think.

Any ideas?

[giannif]

I forked the grunt-rigger project and changed what I needed in the rig function. https://github.com/giannif/grunt-rigger/commit/81f0205a3f9af72f61c3e5743af66ade1ca9b2c5

An example rig config using the processContent (probably not the best name for this option):

rig: {
            options:{
                processContent:true
            },
            project1: {
                options: {
                    data: {
                        content: "project1.js"
                    }
                },
                files: {
                    "dist/project1.js": "src/main.js"
                }
            },
            project2: {
                options: {
                    data: {
                        content: "project2.js"
                    }
                },
                files: {
                    "dist/project2.js": "src/main.js"
                }
            }
        },

Then in src/main.js

(function(){
// main.js stuff....
//= <%= content %>
// other main.js stuff
})();

Let me know what you think. Or if there's an easier way to do this that I'm totally missing.

[DamonOehlman]

@giannif I'll take a look at this in the next couple of days. Sorry I didn't respond earlier, I don't seem to be getting emails for this repo at the moment. Will investigate that too...