Call a method from a Go template
Just omit the parentheses and it should be fine. Example:
package main
import (
"html/template"
"log"
"os"
)
type Person string
func (p Person) Label() string {
return "This is " + string(p)
}
func main() {
tmpl, err := template.New("").Parse(`{{.Label}}`)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Parse: %v", err)
}
tmpl.Execute(os.Stdout, Person("Bob"))
}
According to the documentation, you can call any method which returns one value (of any type) or two values if the second one is of type error
. In the later case, Execute
will return that error if it is non-nil and stop the execution of the template.
You can even pass parameters to function like follows
type Person struct {
Name string
}
func (p *Person) Label(param1 string) string {
return "This is " + p.Name + " - " + param1
}
And then in the template write
{{with person}}
{{ .Label "value1"}}
{{end}}
Assuming that the person in the template is a variable of type Person passed to Template.