Jinja2CppMedium

A "medium-lightweight" version of jinja2cpp that features a better build system.

There is also Jinja2CppLight. However, that version supports less Jinja2 features.

Improvements

jinja2cpp has a rather convoluted and unnecessarily complex CMake build script.

Our improvements are:

• A single, more straightforward CMakeLists.txt (100 lines)
• Removed all git submodules - link against (system) libs instead:
  • RapidJSON
  • Boost (system, filesystem)
  • fmt
• Some small header-only libraries are included in the repo as-is:
  • string-view-lite, optional-lite, variant-lite, expected-lite
• Removed support for the nlohmann/json library (only support RapidJSON)
• Removed support for the Conan build system (only support CMake)
• Removed test suite and CI/CD definition(s)
• Added support for ccache (compilation cache)
• Removed documentation

Installation

install into /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include:

cmake -Bbuild .
make -Cbuild -j4
sudo make -Cbuild install

Copy cmake/public/FindJinja2CppMedium.cmake to your project so you may do:

find_package(Jinja2CppMedium REQUIRED)
target_include_directories(your_app PRIVATE ${Jinja2CppMedium_INCLUDE_DIRS})
target_link_libraries(your_app ${Jinja2CppMedium_LIBRARIES})

Usage

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

#include "jinja2cpp/template.h"

using namespace jinja2;

int main(void) {
    std::string source = R"(
        {% if TrueVal %}
        Hello from Jinja template!
        {% endif %}
    )";

    Template tpl;
    tpl.Load(source);
    ValuesMap params = {
        {"TrueVal", true},
        {"FalseVal", true},
    };
    std::string result = tpl.RenderAsString(params).value();
    std::cout << result << std::endl;
    return 0;
}

RapidJSON:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

#include "jinja2cpp/template.h"
#include <jinja2cpp/binding/rapid_json.h>

using namespace jinja2;

int main(void) {
    const char *json = R"(
    {
        "message": "Hello World from Parser!",
        "big_int": 100500100500100,
        "bool_true": true
    }
    )";

    rapidjson::Document doc;
    doc.Parse(json);

    std::string source = R"(
        {{ json.message }}
    )";

    Template tpl;
    tpl.Load(source);

    ValuesMap params = {
        {"json", Reflect(doc)},
    };

    std::string result = tpl.RenderAsString(params).value();
    std::cout << result << std::endl;
    return 0;
}

License

MPL 2.0