A tool to generate .go files from .got templates. Can be used to embed abitrary blobs of data from other files in Go source files.

Install Goatee using the go get command:

 $ go get github.com/hjr265/goatee

The only dependency is the Go distribution itself.

Create a .got template, and, may be, name it hello.got

package main

import (
	"fmt"
)

func main() {
	fmt.Println({{string "greeting.txt"}})
}

Create a file named greeting.txt in the same directory

Hello, world!

Execute Goatee

$ goatee hello.got

This will generate the following as hello.go

package main

import (
	"fmt"
)

func main() {
	fmt.Println("Hello, world!")
}

Right now, there is the template function string, which reads a file and echos the content as a string literal; and then there is bytes, which reads the file and echos the content as an array of bytes.

• Reference

Contributions are welcome.

Goatee is available under the BSD (3-Clause) License.