Debugging template variables
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icy-furniture-17516
03/31/2023, 11:06 AMIs there an easy way to debug a) what variables are available and b) what is the value (recursively) of a variable in a given template?
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quaint-dress-831
03/31/2023, 12:46 PMCan you clarify what you mean by available variables? In Module Templates or templating variables with Garden's built-in helpers?
If Module Templates, do you want the values of a provided JSON Schema? https://docs.garden.io/using-garden/module-templates#defining-and-referencing-inputs
quaint-dress-831
03/31/2023, 12:47 PMI haven't used our Module Templates (yet) so I'd need to pull down our example and play with it if that's what you're referring to
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icy-furniture-17516
04/02/2023, 4:05 AMsorry, but by template I meant a garden.yaml file or a kubernetes file, that is parsed and processed as a template (and definitely not module templates, we havent' played with that either)
icy-furniture-17516
04/02/2023, 4:07 AMthe docs https://docs.garden.io/using-garden/variables-and-templating say:
> Note that while this syntax looks similar to template strings in Javascript, we don't allow arbitrary JS expressions. See the next section for the available expression syntax.
fair enough, but I haven't found anything about how I could inspect a variable, so that I can discover what field are available at any given context. How do devs do this? (should I just ask in the dev channel?)
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quaint-dress-831
04/02/2023, 1:22 PM#dev is for dev talk on Garden OSS (which you're very welcome to take part in but I'd like to keep concerns separate). I'll escalate. If you can provide a specific example of the variable you're trying to inspect, that'd be super helpful 🙂
quaint-dress-831
04/02/2023, 1:31 PMHow pressing is this? Are you ok waiting until Tuesday when we meet to have an answer?
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icy-furniture-17516
04/02/2023, 9:31 PMNot pressing atm. I was specifically looking at
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