Feature request: Add support for nested hand-made variables

[adamantike]

Problem

Currently, hand-made variables do not support nesting, which sometimes helps to reduce duplication and simplify configuration files.

Here is a simple example, trying to reuse a single Healthchecks host URL across multiple projects:

version: "1"

{{ $healthchecksURL := "https://healthchecks.com" }}
{{ $healthchecksURLProj1 := "{{ $healthchecksURL }}/ping/uuid1" }}
{{ $healthchecksURLProj2 := "{{ $healthchecksURL }}/ping/uuid2" }}

proj1:
  env:
    HEALTHCHECKS_URL: "{{ $healthchecksURLProj1 }}"

proj2:
  env:
    HEALTHCHECKS_URL: "{{ $healthchecksURLProj2 }}"

Running show indicates that no variable expansion was done when initializing $healthchecksURLProj1:

$ resticprofile -n proj1 show
global:
    ionice-class:             2
    default-command:          snapshots
    restic-arguments-filter:  true
    restic-lock-retry-after:  1m0s
    restic-stale-lock-age:    1h0m0s
    min-memory:               100
    send-timeout:             30s

profile proj1:
    prometheus-push-format:  text

    env:
        HEALTHCHECKS_URL:  {{ $healthchecksURL }}/ping/uuid1

Proposed solution

• Include the variable expansion logic during hand-made variable initialization/assignment.
• If the nested variable hasn't been initialized yet, the program could fail to indicate a configuration error.

[jkellerer]

These variables derive from the support for go templates for all config files. These templates have very limited default functionality and a strict syntax (though they can be extended with functions, e.g. like done here )

That said there are 2 options right now to perform what you’d like to achieve:

{{ $healthchecksURL := "https://healthchecks.com" }}
{{ $healthchecksURLProj1 := (printf "%s%s" $healthchecksURL "/ping/uuid1") }}
{{ $healthchecksURLProj2 := (list $healthchecksURL "/ping/uuid2" | join "") }}

[adamantike]

Closing this issue, as it has been resolved thanks to @jkellerer answer. Glad to have a way to not repeat those base URLs!