templating

[Dieterbe]

in graphite-web/webapp/graphite/render/glyph.py the method loadTemplate reads the template from the config file. graphite-api doesn't do this.

• it has been the case since initial release, yet this is not mentioned anywhere in the changelog (i.e. implying that the behavior is the same as graphite-web).
• the docs still mention the template http param and graphTemplates.conf, glyph.py also refers to the file, but the file is not used and the param does nothing.

[brutasse]

I'd be in favor of dropping the template-related code and document that graphite-api doesn't have templates and passing &template= is a no-op.

[Dieterbe]

why? i would argue that templates are quite useful, and easy to implement. do you think people should append all style parameters to every png url? that can get cumbersome.

[zzl0]

templates are quite useful

+1