Ability to escape {{}} in Workflows

[tomaley]

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Many of the CLI tools I frequently use support GoTemplate formatting of output. While powerful and useful, these templates are a pain to craft each time they're needed so I would love to be able to save them to workflow... but the mustache syntax conflicts with the 'arguments' feature of workflow.

A command I used today:

ibmcloud cr image-list --format '{{if eq .Namespace "personal-dev"}}{{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}}{{end}}' | xargs ibmcloud cr image-rm

to clear out all images in my 'personal-dev' registry namespace would be a prime candidate to be saved away in workflow with the 'personal-dev' element being an argument so I can apply this to namespaces in a parameterized fashion. The issue is that the command cannot be saved because it wants to make `{{end}}` an argument.

Kubectl commands supporting `-o go-template` have the same issue and again make prime candidates for parameterized workflow entries.

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A command I used today:

ibmcloud cr image-list --format '{{if eq .Namespace "personal-dev"}}{{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}}{{end}}' | xargs ibmcloud cr image-rm

to clear out all images in my 'personal-dev' registry namespace would be a prime candidate to be saved away in workflow with the 'personal-dev' element being an argument so I can apply this to namespaces in a parameterized fashion. The issue is that the command cannot be saved because it wants to make `{{end}}` an argument but that is part of the GoTemplate 'if' directive.

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[dannyneira]

Thanks for this feature request! There is a somewhat related issue you can track here: https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/issues/3205

In essence, when you have two arguments side by side with no character/space in between, the workflows don't work as intended. (i.e. echo {{arg1}}{{arg2}})

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[zheng]

Thanks for this request! I'm thinking what the product should do is allow you to escape if what you want is the explicit moustache. It looks like the standard syntax in HTML would be to do {{{end}}}. Does that seem like the right approach to you?

[tomaley]

@zheng that sounds perfectly reasonable to me

[kevin-lucas-simon]

I have this issue too with some Docker related commands in my Warp workflows. For example docker stats --format "table {{.Name}} {{.CPUPerc}}" for displaying the CPU stats of my containers.

[kar0v]

Let me also add my pain point - I've been unable to transfer all my iTerm snippets to Warp, which amazes me as there is no way to save plain text commands. I've been struggling with docker history --no-trunc --format "{{.ID}}: {{.CreatedBy}}". Can you add a boolean checkmark somewhere to store the workflow as plain text and to be able to save that workflow?

[0Knot]

You can take a detour and enter DOCKER_TEMPLATE=$(echo '{{ json .Mounts }}') in the linux shell

Then use the following syntax in the workflow

docker inspect --format "$DOCKER_TEMPLATE" {{DOCKER_IMAGE}} | python3 -m json.tool

I hope the official can optimize this syntax

[tukusejssirs]

I am also experiencing this bug.

IMHO this is what Warp should do:

• Wrap should treat {{anything}} as a literal string (everything is treated literally by default, users must make a part of the code a variable explicitly);
• Warp should make {{anything}} clickable;
• when a user clicks on {{anything}}, it would create a variable (with description and default value text boxes);
• alternatively, there should be a way to select {{anything}} by keyboard (without mouse/touchpad/TrackPoint; e.g. using a special keyboard shortcut like Alt+1) and then press Enter.

Another way to accomplish this is to select a part of the code and click a button (e.g. Make a variable) or press a keyboard shortcut (e.g. Alt+V).