FR: Public API for other plugin use

[valentine195]

Hey! I was thinking about adding the ability to specify import templates using handlebars for the TTRPG Statblocks plugin, and realized that you already did the hard work :)

Would it be possible for you to create a generic method I could pass a json file and handlebars template file to, and get back the parsed file?

[farling42]

The convertJson routine in my plugin takes a jsonfile which contains an array of records and creates many files, one per record in the array.

If that is what is required then I can probably make it an easy exported method.

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If you only require a single record to be processed then it might be quicker to grab just the few lines required:

85 (JSON.parse)

88-92 (sets up handlebars)

125 (let body = template(jsondata)).

On 16/01/2022 00:09, Jeremy Valentine wrote:

Hey! I was thinking about adding the ability to specify import templates using handlebars for the TTRPG Statblocks plugin, and realized that you already did the hard work :)

Would it be possible for you to create a generic method I could pass a json file and handlebars template file to, and get back the parsed file?

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[valentine195]

Yup, basically. The idea would be to pass a file of JSON array of objects and a handlebars file and get back the array of monsters.

Edit: but yeah, no worries - I can just pull out the code too. Probably easier in the end 😁

[farling42]

My version adds the files directly into the vault in a named location; I don't know if you would want them there.

It is only half a dozen lines - the main thing is to initialize the handlebars thing only once per batch. :)

[valentine195]

Thanks for the heads up!