Conditionals for file creation

The current version supports conditionals inside files, but not about files. That is, I can include or exclude blocks of text depending on the truthiness of a value. I cannot, however, create files only if a certain value is truthy.

This would be hugely helpful in at least one case: the template I’m working on will support multiple deployment options (raw JAR, AWS, debian package…). Each method needs different files to be present in different paths.

Currently, I can either include everything and ask developers to manually delete what’s irrelevant, or include nothing and point them to a repo that contains the right files.

Ideally, they’d just answer a question (use AWS? [YES/no]) and everything would be set up.

[vptheron]

@notmu Thanks for the example, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. I see some strange behavior. I have this layout:

src/main/g8
├── resources
 |   ├── $if(use_sql.truthy)$sql_scripts$endif$
 |    |          |-- db_script.sql
...

If I set use_sql to yes during project creation I see the expected layout: resources/sql_scripts/db_script.sql. However, if I use no to set the value of use_sql I see the following layout in the output project: resources/db_script.sql. The file db_script.sql still gets included in the project, directly under resources.

Am I misunderstanding your example, or doing something wrong?

[eugeniyk]

@ihostage I see, sorry for disturb actually my bad - I was using sbt which was older version since it was installed long time ago (1.3.3) running as sbt -sbt-version 1.5.3 new ... solves the problem