grunt-pattern-replace

Allow you to parse a list of files and replace tokens based on specifics patterns. Inspired by alanshaw / grunt-include-replace.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-pattern-replace --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-pattern-replace');

The "patternReplace" task

Overview

The task allow you to specify a list of tokens (a multi level dictionary), which allow you to replace in several files placeholder "variable". Your placeholder variables can be prefixed and suffixed, by example : [[alpha]]. You can use a dot separated variable, it allow you to group your keys logically : [[alpha.beta]] will match with the child key beta of the object alpha.

At the moment, only single file examples are provided. More tests will come soon.

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named patternReplace to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  patternReplace: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
})

Options

options.tokens

Type: Object Default value: {}

A list of tokens available for replacement in all files.

options.prefix

Type: String Default value: \\[\\[

Variable/include directive prefix.

options.suffix

Type: String Default value: \\]\\]

Variable/include directive suffix.

options.includesDir

Type: String Default value: Relative to including file

Directory where includes will be resolved.

Usage Examples

Default Options

Default prefix and suffix are \\[\\[ and \\]\\]. It allows you to define placeholder variables like [[variable.child]]. In this example, [[falcon]] would be replaced by punch and [[bankai.ichigo]] by Tenza Zangetsu.

grunt.initConfig({
	patternReplace: {
        options : {
            tokens : {
                falcon : "punch",
                bankai : {
                    ichigo : "Tenza Zengetsu"
                }
            }
        },
	    expand : true,
	    cwd    : "source/folder/",
	    dest   : "dest/folder",
	    src    : "file"
    }
});

Custom Options

Same example while replacing default prefix and suffix. Placeholder variables would be now ((falcon)) and ((bankai.ichigo)).

grunt.initConfig({
	patternReplace: {
        options : {
			prefix : "\\(\\(",
			suffix : "\\)\\)",
            tokens : {
                falcon : "punch",
                bankai : {
                    ichigo : "Tenza Zengetsu"
                }
            }
        },
	    expand : true,
        cwd    : "source/folder/",
        dest   : "dest/folder",
        src    : "file"
    }
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

• 2014-08-06   v1.0.1   Remove old node dependency on Travis.
• 2014-08-06   v1.0.0   Major release. Now replace object values with a stringified object instead of putting it in the undefined tokens list.
• 2014-04-14   v0.2.0   Add '-', '_' and '|' to the matching regex.
• 2014-02-13   v0.1.6   Empty string tokens values are not replaced by their tokens anymore.
• 2014-02-13   v0.1.5   Now identify empty strings token values : was previously handled as a not found token.
• 2014-01-09   v0.1.4   Identify tokens that match with no value and print them.
• 2014-01-08   v0.1.3   Can now use grunt template variables (with the <%= ... %> notation).
• 2013-11-10   v0.1.2   Correct the prefix and suffix example.
• 2013-11-10   v0.1.1   Add travis build, custom prefix & suffix tests.
• 2013-11-05   v0.1.0   First version.