Detecting Templates Recursively in a Folder

[Ding-Fan]

At this function

chatgpt-md/main.ts

Lines 919 to 933 in 1cd9234

	getFilesInChatFolder(): TFile[] {
	const folder = this.app.vault.getAbstractFileByPath(
	this.settings.chatTemplateFolder
	) as TFolder;
	if (folder != null) {
	return folder.children as TFile[];
	} else {
	new Notice(
	`Error getting folder: ${this.settings.chatTemplateFolder}`
	);
	throw new Error(
	`Error getting folder: ${this.settings.chatTemplateFolder}`
	);
	}
	}

It could recurrsively call it self according to folder or file.

https://marcus.se.net/obsidian-plugin-docs/vault#is-it-a-file-or-folder

const folderOrFile = this.app.vault.getAbstractFileByPath("folderOrFile");  
  
if (folderOrFile instanceof TFile) {  
console.log("It's a file!");  
// add to TFile[]
} else if (folderOrFile instanceof TFolder) {  
console.log("It's a folder!");  
// do recurrsion
}

Example from GPT

const isTemplate = (filePath: string) => {
  // check if filePath is a valid template
  ...
};

// Create a utility function for recursive search
const detectTemplatesInFolder = async (folderPath: string) => {
  const files = await this.app.vault.getFiles();
  
  let templateFiles = [];
  
  for (let i=0; i<files.length; i++) {
    const file = files[i];
    
    if (!file.path.startsWith(folderPath)) { // ignore unrelated files/folders 
      continue;
    }
    
    if (file instanceof TFile && isTemplate(file.path)) { // found a template file
      templateFiles.push(file);
      
    } else if (file instanceof TFolder) { // found a sub-folder, do recursion
      const subfolderTemplates = await detectTemplatesInFolder(file.path);
      
      if(subfolderTemplates.length > 0 ) {
        templateFiles.push(...subfolderTemplates);
      }
    }
  }
  
 return templateFiles;
};

[DenizOkcu]

This sounds like a great opportunity to turn it into a PR which we can discuss :-)

Let me know if you need help with PRs