Control over indentation with the |json filter

[antifuchs]

Hi there, I use askama to great effect with the cargo-template-ci crate (to create yaml for various CI services), and have run into a little weirdness - it's not a blocker, but my aesthetics still feel like this could be better.

When I use the something|json filter, the output is indented JSON - that works OK in yaml for me, but it looks really weird - I'd much prefer if the JSON output was just a single line, rather than (legally but weirdly) outdented yaml.

Can the filter function be configured to do that?

[djc]

It cannot, but you can define user-defined filters, which sounds like a good fit for your particular issue?

There's a little bit of documentation about the feature here:

https://docs.rs/askama/0.7.2/askama/#filters

[antifuchs]

That sounds good - I just reviewed the json filter, and it looks like I could relatively easily make a non-pretty JSON filter (or a YAML filter, but I guess I'd need indentation info from the caller of the filter) (:

[djc]

To answer your question more directly: no, you cannot, but based on this single request I don't think I want to change stuff built-in to Askama if the user-defined filter provides good (possibly better? -- you can do an actual YAML filter) cover for your needs.

Also I'd be okay with having an optional yaml filter included, BTW.

[djc]

Closing this for now, since it looks like your problem has been solved!

[djc]

(Just to make it better, the next release will feature an optional yaml filter, see #201.)

[asf-stripe]

Thanks, this is great!