Not To Prompt Input Based on Previous Certain Input Value

• Cookiecutter version: 1.7.2
• Template project url: N/A
• Python version: 3.7.7
• Operating System: windows

Description:

I want to provide two database options to choose.

{
  ...
  "database": [
    "sqlite",
    "postgres"
  ],
  "db_user": "postgres",
  "db_passwd": "password",
  "db_addr": "127.0.0.1",
  "db_name": "{{cookiecutter.app_slug}}"
}

But for sqlite, I don’t need to know these

{
  "db_user": "postgres",
  "db_passwd": "password",
  "db_addr": "127.0.0.1",
  "db_name": "{{cookiecutter.app_slug}}"
}

So how can I decide not to prompt these input based on certain input value?

[Chobito]

@edesz @mockingjet

About your issue, I had the same issue and I solved it using the python library in a pre_gen hook, check below, on this case is to create or not a Datadog_synth test that need the variables. I hope it is useful for you.

cookiecutter.json

{
  "project_name": "your_project_name",
  "test_creation": ["yes", "no"],
  "_copy_without_render": [
    ".github/workflows/*.yml"
  ]
}

pre_gen_project.py

import sys
import cookiecutter.prompt
'''
This pre_gen is to avoid to input tests variables if you don't want to create it
'''

if "{{ cookiecutter.test_creation }}" == "yes":
    cookiecutter.prompt.read_user_variable("test_name","your_synthetic_test_name")
    cookiecutter.prompt.read_user_variable("test_url","your_synthetic_test_url: Format http/https://url")
    cookiecutter.prompt.read_user_variable("test_contact","email_contact_here: Format @email")

else:
    """{{ cookiecutter.update(
        {
            "test_name": "",
            "test_url": "",
            "test_contact": ""
        }
    )}}"""

sys.exit(0)

[GianlucaFicarelli]

@Chobito unless you do something with the returned value, calling cookiecutter.prompt.read_user_variable() is useless because it’s just calling click.prompt().