How best to trigger template insertion from another plugin, ideally with custom js context?

[kevboh]

I'm building a plugin that uses templates to create specific notes. These notes have custom metadata that needs to be inserted into them. With the core templates plugin, I'm just replacing {{token}} with a value, but if a user is using Templater I'd like to be able to use Eta syntax instead. This question has two parts:

1. Is the right API to call here templater.create_new_note_from_template?
2. Is there a way to inject metadata such that <%= some_variable_from_metadata %> resolves correctly?

In the meantime I'll use the {{token}} method in Templater templates as well, but I'd love to do it the right way. Thank you!

[AB1908]

Can you reach out to me on Discord? I feel like I saw this a while back.

[KGrzeg]

Bump. Is there any prefered way of injecting data into templates? In my case I want to inject some data into notes created by Periodic Notes plugin. The journey looks like that:

1. Periodic Notes creates a new note
2. My plugin fetches some data from external source and inject that into note as variables
3. Templater style the note using the data

I can hack into Templater's interals or hook into a file creation and depend on Templater's Trigger Templater on new file creation setting. Then prefill the file with a Javascript code, that define my data. There are also interesting User Scripts mechanism in Templater, but I don't think I can integrate it with my plugin in the way I want. The user script can no call 3rd party plugin's method and I don't want to move all the logic into script.

[AB1908]

Hmm use CustomJS inside user script?

[KGrzeg]

Yea, but I don't want to do all the stuff in the userscript, like request authentication. That be perfect if userscript could call my plugin's method and get returned data.

[AB1908]

Hold on, what do you mean by auth outside CustomJS? You'd rather do auth in templater?