Templates can only be loaded from `templates/` folder in working directory?

[amotl]

Hi there,

we are apparently not using that feature too much, that is why we are asking the community about it.

Is it possible that mqttwarn can only load templates from the templates/ folder in current working directory? According to the implementation, it looks like it is - please correct me if I'm wrong.

https://github.com/jpmens/mqttwarn/blob/b8e61e224b3d6cbad6605870d6e518be7f815133/mqttwarn/core.py#L37-L45

Do you think it should be improved?

With kind regards, Andreas.

[jpmens]

It's never been reported as a problem, and I can't really imagine it is. I selected the name templates/ because it sounded reasonable, (and because that's the default in Ansible :-) ).

[amotl]

Hi JP,

I selected the name templates/ because it sounded reasonable.

The name is perfectly reasonable. I was just wondering if the location of the folder should be made more flexible. When it never has been a problem, then I will back off.

I am just remembering the time when mqttwarn would mostly load an mqttwarn.ini file from the current working directory. In this scenario it would be perfectly fine to assume the templates/ folder is right side-by-side.

However, I think we made some adjustments to improve the location resolvement for the function file, for example. And I think we may want to apply the same logic to the location resolvement of the Jinja2 template folder.

I am not completely sure about current the state (will have to investigate), but just wanted to take a note about it while I came across the corresponding lines of code while writing more tests yesterday, and listen to what you think about it.

With kind regards, Andreas.

[jpmens]

Maybe templates/ could be a default if the path to the template file is not absolute.

I don't think changing the behaviour would break very much.