Non basic template pathing?

[Marc Whitbread]

Can I do something like template: 'content/some_key'? or '../content/some_key'?

[niftylettuce]

I'm not sure what you mean - can you be more elaborate with a code example? We do expose the send and render methods.

[Marc Whitbread]

Something like...

  .send({
    template: 'some/path/to/mars',
    message: {
      to: '[e-mail]'
    },
    locals: {
      name: 'Elon'
    }
  })

OR

  .send({
    template: '../../some/path/to/mars',
    message: {
      to: '[e-mail]'
    },
    locals: {
      name: 'Elon'
    }
  })

How does it work?

[niftylettuce]

If you look in the codebase, the render method uses a function getTemplatePath. You would either need to do one of two things:

1. Pass a custom render function (see https://github.com/niftylettuce/email-templates#custom-rendering-eg-from-a-mongodb-database)
2. Fork this repo and submit a pull request that would allow a third argument to be passed to render, which could be a Boolean. As such you'd pass email.render('/absolute/path', locals, true) and instead of using this.getTemplatePath it would simply set filePath to the value /absolute/path if the Boolean value was true for isAbsolutePath (e.g. in email.render(template, locals, isAbsolutePath = false).

[Marc Whitbread]

Awesome dude! I'll take a look and possibly go the PR route 👍

Thanks for the quick reply!

[niftylettuce]

Actually @marcwhitbread - you might not even need a third argument!

https://nodejs.org/api/path.html#path_path_isabsolute_path

You could just use that inside the render method, and if it was an absolute path then it would not attempt to lookup the template 😄

[niftylettuce]

Going to re-open this- once we resolve/patch/PR we can close 😄!

[niftylettuce]

@marcwhitbread would love a PR ❤️ !

[Philipp Kursawe]

@niftylettuce Would that solve the issue?
#329

[niftylettuce]

thanks @pke, I've released v5.0.1 of email-templates which includes this PR

update docs are available too at https://github.com/niftylettuce/email-templates#absolute-path-to-templates

cc @marcwhitbread care to try it out?