NonTemplatedInputDirException on template with static file names.

• Cookiecutter version: 1.6.0
• Python version: 2.7
• Operating System: macOS High Sierra

Description:

I’m trying to generate a template that creates a couple of test files for my project.

my-template/
--- cookiecutter.json
--- resolvers.test.js
--- test-fixtures.js

What I’ve run:

// Inside dir where I want to create the test files.
cookiecutter /path/to/my-template

I get cookiecutter.exceptions.NonTemplatedInputDirException

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/cookiecutter", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('cookiecutter==1.6.0', 'console_scripts', 'cookiecutter')()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/cookiecutter/1.6.0/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/cookiecutter/1.6.0/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/cookiecutter/1.6.0/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/cookiecutter/1.6.0/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/cookiecutter/1.6.0/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cookiecutter/cli.py", line 120, in main
    password=os.environ.get('COOKIECUTTER_REPO_PASSWORD')
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/cookiecutter/1.6.0/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cookiecutter/main.py", line 94, in cookiecutter
    output_dir=output_dir
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/cookiecutter/1.6.0/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cookiecutter/generate.py", line 257, in generate_files
    template_dir = find_template(repo_dir)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/cookiecutter/1.6.0/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cookiecutter/find.py", line 36, in find_template
    raise NonTemplatedInputDirException
cookiecutter.exceptions.NonTemplatedInputDirException

I believe this is because none of my template files use variables in their names, e.g. {{cookiecutter.modelName}}-resolvers.test.js is there a way to skip that requirement?

[indrif]

But wait what? So I have to use a templated root dir? What if I want cookiecutter to create a templated dir inside an existing dir, such as A/b/{{cookiecutter.slug_name}}? Is that really something that breaks the initial vision you mentioned earlier?

Or perhaps you just want to create some templated files inside an existing folder. Why is there a requirement for every folder to be templated?

[pydanny]

Apologies, but you are asking for a proven feature of Cookiecutter to be removed.

The design of Cookiecutter is for the template to have a top level directory to have template configuration files. For example, this means you can use continuous integration and pytest-cookies to confirm your project template isn’t broken on a change. Reference Cookiecutter Django’s root directory, including tests, travis-ci.yml, tox.ini, and others to see how this works in a real-world project.

So allowing top level files to be included in a generated template just isn’t going to happen. It breaks the original architecture envisioned by @audreyr. Instead, you need to create a {{cookiecutter.project_slug}} or other similarly named directory for your project.