4.x - Can't bake custom view template

[davidyell]

What you did

I baked my plugin and copied across the templates as per the documentation.

~/Sites/CakePHP4 $ bin/cake bake template -f --theme=CakeBootstrap --prefix=Admin Questions view

Baking `view` view template file...

File `/Users/davidyell/Sites/CakePHP4/src/../templates/Admin/Questions/view.php` exists
Do you want to overwrite? (y/n/a/q)
[n] > a
Wrote `/Users/davidyell/Sites/CakePHP4/src/../templates/Admin/Questions/view.php`

What happened?

When I baked my templates the 'view' template was baked using the default template and not the one included in my bake theme plugin.

Things you've tried

I tried making my CakeBootstrap/templates/bake/Template/view.twig template just contain the words 'A view template', to ensure I didn't have any Twig errors.

I can generate my index, add and edit templates correctly using the same command.

Show us the code

https://github.com/davidyell/Learning-CakePHP4/tree/master/plugins/CakeBootstrap/templates/bake/Template

[dereuromark]

I agree that this should throw an exception with the paths it tried to find instead of silent fallback. You could debug where it tries to locate the theme. Maybe this is related to the bug I discovered that makes loading plugins behave weird: https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/pull/13264 You could try if that core branch resolved it for you?

[ADmad]

I agree that this should throw an exception with the paths it tried to find instead of silent fallback.

It shouldn't. This is how themes work, if a file doesn't exist in theme then it fallbacks to default. Without this feature one would have to copy all files and go through the hassle of keeping them all up to date with core even if they want to customize only some templates.

[dereuromark]

Oh right - agreed. Can we in verbose output at least show which ones have been used from which side? Or is that also out of scope?

[ADmad]

Yeah outputting which template was used would be nice.

[dereuromark]

Maybe in verbose:

• file1: templateX
• file2: templateX
• file3: templateY

etc

[davidyell]

I've spent quite a few hours today trying to pick this one apart and I can't figure out what's wrong. I've managed to get it rendering the template name, by adding a var_dump to to BakeView::render method, and it's outputting the correct template path.

However the TemplateCommand::bake method's call to getContent is returning the core template. This made me think it's in the TemplateRenderer, but I can't understand the code there as it looks to just render a template.

[markstory]

I can take a look at this. I may have goofed something up when I converted from shells to commands.

[markstory]

I tried to reproduce this problem tonight and wasn't able to. Would you be able to composer up to get the latest changes on 4.x-dev? There was a fix applied recently for plugin iteration that may be related to this.

[davidyell]

09:06:57 davidyell@ukwm157 ~/Sites/CakePHP4 $ rm -rf vendor/
09:07:01 davidyell@ukwm157 ~/Sites/CakePHP4 $ rm composer.lock
09:07:08 davidyell@ukwm157 ~/Sites/CakePHP4 $ composer install
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Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
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Still getting the same issue. Did you checkout my repo to try and replicate this?

[cleptric]

@davidyell Did you already try to delete the tmp/cache/twgiView folder?

[davidyell]

@cleptric I did before submitting the ticket, but I haven't tried since updating my composer dependancies. Let me try...

I get the same default template baked after clearing the caches using bin/cake cache clearall. However, when I manually delete the tmp/twigView folder, my template bakes correctly. Thanks!

I'll close this one now as it's resolved my issue.

[cleptric]

@davidyell I'll let it open because i think we should try to invalidate the cache at least when debug is on. Maybe @markstory has a good idea 🙂

[ADmad]

I am all in favor of disabling twig cache for bake.

[markstory]

Having no cache would make things much simpler.

[cleptric]

I disabled the cache in #552 so I'll close the issue.

[davidyell]

Thanks @cleptric

[tgoeminne]

when overwrie a plugins bake template using the templates/plugin/BootstrapUI/bake folder it will not use the overwritten file but the original file from plugin...