Jinja2С++

C++ implementation of the Jinja2 Python template engine. This library brings support of powerful Jinja2 template features into the C++ world, reports dynamic HTML pages and source code generation.

Introduction

Main features of Jinja2C++:

Easy-to-use public interface. Just load templates and render them.
Conformance to Jinja2 specification
Full support of narrow- and wide-character strings both for templates and parameters.
Built-in reflection for the common C++ types, nlohmann and rapid JSON libraries.
Powerful full-featured Jinja2 expressions with filtering (via '|' operator) and 'if'-expressions.
Control statements (set, for, if, filter, do, with).
Templates extension, including and importing
Macros
Rich error reporting.
Shared template environment with templates cache support

For instance, this simple code:

#include <jinja2cpp/template.h>

std::string source = R"(
{{ ("Hello", 'world') | join }}!!!
{{ ("Hello", 'world') | join(', ') }}!!!
{{ ("Hello", 'world') | join(d = '; ') }}!!!
{{ ("Hello", 'world') | join(d = '; ') | lower }}!!!
)";

Template tpl;
tpl.Load(source);

std::string result = tpl.RenderAsString({}).value();

produces the result string:

Helloworld!!!
Hello, world!!!
Hello; world!!!
hello; world!!!

Getting started

To use Jinja2C++ in your project you have to:

Clone the Jinja2C++ repository
Build it according to the instructions
Link to your project.

Usage of Jinja2C++ in the code is pretty simple:

Declare the jinja2::Template object:

jinja2::Template tpl;

Populate it with template:

tpl.Load("{{ 'Hello World' }}!!!");

Render the template:

std::cout << tpl.RenderAsString({}).value() << std::endl;

and get:

Hello World!!!

That's all!

More detailed examples and features description can be found in the documentation: https://jinja2cpp.github.io/docs/usage

Current Jinja2 support

Currently, Jinja2C++ supports the limited number of Jinja2 features. By the way, Jinja2C++ is planned to be a fully jinja2 specification-conformant. The current support is limited to:

expressions. You can use almost every expression style: simple, filtered, conditional, and so on.
the big number of filters (sort, default, first, last, length, max, min, reverse, unique, sum, attr, map, reject, rejectattr, select, selectattr, pprint, dictsort, abs, float, int, list, round, random, trim, title, upper, wordcount, replace, truncate, groupby, urlencode, capitalize, escape, tojson, striptags, center, xmlattr)
the big number of testers (eq, defined, ge, gt, iterable, le, lt, mapping, ne, number, sequence, string, undefined, in, even, odd, lower, upper)
the number of functions (range, loop.cycle)
'if' statement (with 'elif' and 'else' branches)
'for' statement (with 'else' branch and 'if' part support)
'include' statement
'import'/'from' statements
'set' statement (both line and block)
'filter' statement
'extends'/'block' statements
'macro'/'call' statements
'with' statement
'do' extension statement
recursive loops
space control and 'raw'/'endraw' blocks

Full information about Jinja2 specification support and compatibility table can be found here: https://jinja2cpp.github.io/docs/j2_compatibility.html.

Supported compilers

Compilation of Jinja2C++ tested on the following compilers (with C++14 and C++17 enabled features):

Linux gcc 5.5 - 9.0
Linux clang 5.0 - 9
MacOS X-Code 9
MacOS X-Code 10
MacOS X-Code 11 (C++14 in default build, C++17 with externally-provided boost)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 - 2019 x86, x64
MinGW gcc compiler 7.3
MinGW gcc compiler 8.1

Note: Support of gcc version >= 9.x or clang version >= 8.0 depends on the version of the Boost library provided.

Build status

Compiler	Status
MSVC 2015 (x86, x64), MinGW 7 (x64), MinGW 8 (x64)
X-Code 9, 10, 11
MSVC 2017 (x86, x64), MSVC 2019 (x86, x64), C++14/C++17
g++ 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 clang 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 C++14/C++17/C++20

Build and install

Jinja2C++ has several external dependencies:

boost library (at least version 1.65)
nonstd::expected-lite https://github.com/martinmoene/expected-lite
nonstd::variant-lite https://github.com/martinmoene/variant-lite
nonstd::optional-lite https://github.com/martinmoene/optional-lite
nonstd::string-view-lite https://github.com/martinmoene/string-view-lite
fmtlib::fmt https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt

Examples of build scripts and different build configurations could be found here: https://github.com/jinja2cpp/examples-build

In simplest case to compile Jinja2C++ you need:

Install CMake build system (at least version 3.0)
Clone jinja2cpp repository:

> git clone https://github.com/flexferrum/Jinja2Cpp.git

Create build directory:

> cd Jinja2Cpp
> mkdir build

Run CMake and build the library:

> cd build
> cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<path to install folder>
> cmake --build . --target all

"Path to install folder" here is a path to the folder where you want to install Jinja2C++ lib.

Install library:

> cmake --build . --target install

In this case, Jinja2C++ will be built with internally-shipped dependencies and install them respectively. But Jinja2C++ supports builds with externally-provided deps.

Usage with conan.io dependency manager

Jinja2C++ can be used as conan.io package. In this case, you should do the following steps:

Install conan.io according to the documentation ( https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/installation.html )
Add a reference to Jinja2C++ package (jinja2cpp/1.2.1) to your conanfile.txt, conanfile.py or CMakeLists.txt. For instance, with the usage of conan-cmake integration it could be written this way:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.24)
project(Jinja2CppSampleConan CXX)

list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
list(APPEND CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})

add_definitions("-std=c++14")

if(NOT EXISTS "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/conan.cmake")
  message(STATUS "Downloading conan.cmake from https://github.com/conan-io/cmake-conan")
  file(DOWNLOAD "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/conan-io/cmake-conan/0.18.1/conan.cmake"
                "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/conan.cmake"
                TLS_VERIFY ON)
endif()
include(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/conan.cmake)

conan_cmake_autodetect(settings)
conan_cmake_run(REQUIRES
                    jinja2cpp/1.1.0
                    gtest/1.14.0
                BASIC_SETUP
                ${CONAN_SETTINGS}
                OPTIONS
                    jinja2cpp/*:shared=False
                    gtest/*:shared=False
                BUILD missing)

set (TARGET_NAME jinja2cpp_build_test)

add_executable (${TARGET_NAME} main.cpp)

target_link_libraries (${TARGET_NAME} ${CONAN_LIBS})
set_target_properties (${TARGET_NAME} PROPERTIES
            CXX_STANDARD 14
            CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)

Additional CMake build flags

You can define (via -D command-line CMake option) the following build flags:

JINJA2CPP_BUILD_TESTS (default TRUE) - to build or not to Jinja2C++ tests.
JINJA2CPP_STRICT_WARNINGS (default TRUE) - Enable strict mode compile-warnings(-Wall -Werror, etc).
JINJA2CPP_MSVC_RUNTIME_TYPE (default /MD) - MSVC runtime type to link with (if you use Microsoft Visual Studio compiler).
JINJA2CPP_DEPS_MODE (default "internal") - modes for dependency handling. Following values possible:
- internal In this mode Jinja2C++ build script uses dependencies (include boost) shipped as subprojects. Nothing needs to be provided externally.
- external-boost In this mode Jinja2C++ build script uses only boost as an externally-provided dependency. All other dependencies are taken from subprojects.
- external In this mode all dependencies should be provided externally. Paths to boost, nonstd-* libs, etc. should be specified via standard CMake variables (like CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or libname_DIR)
- conan-build Special mode for building Jinja2C++ via conan recipe.

Build with C++17 standard enabled

Jinja2C++ tries to use standard versions of std::variant, std::string_view and std::optional if possible.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to @flexferrum for creating this library, for being one of the brightest minds in software engineering community. Rest in peace, friend.

Thanks to @manu343726 for CMake scripts improvement, bug hunting, and fixing and conan.io packaging.

Thanks to @martinmoene for the perfectly implemented xxx-lite libraries.

Thanks to @vitaut for the amazing text formatting library.

Thanks to @martinus for the fast hash maps implementation.

Changelog

Version 1.3.2

What's Changed

Fix empty dict literal parsing in #243
Fixing missing life rage protection for the reverse filter (and others). by @jferreyra-sc in #246
Ability to disable JinjaCpp installation rules by @ilya-lavrenov in #250
Cmake finds only downloaded rapidjson by @ilya-lavrenov in #254
Update boost dependencies by @Cheaterdev in #253

New Contributors

@jferreyra-sc made their first contribution in #246
@ilya-lavrenov made their first contribution in #250
@Cheaterdev made their first contribution in #253

Version 1.3.1

Changes and improvements

bump deps versions
add new json binding - boost::json
speedup regex parsing by switching to boost::regex(std::regex extremely slow)
- templates are now loading faster

Fixed bugs

small fixes across code base

Breaking changes

internal deps now used through cmake fetch_content
default json serializer/deserializer is switched to boost::json

Version 1.2.1

Changes and improvements

bump deps versions
support modern compilers(up to Clang 12) and standards(C++20)
tiny code style cleanup

Fixed bugs

small fixes across code base

Breaking changes

internal deps point to make based boost build

Version 1.1.0

Changes and improvements

batch filter added
slice filter added
format filter added
tojson filter added
striptags filter added
center filter added
xmlattr filter added
raw/endraw tags added
repeat string operator added (e. g. 'a' * 5 will produce 'aaaaa')
support for templates metadata (meta/endmeta tags) added
-fPIC flag added to Linux build configuration

Fixed bugs

Fix behavior of lstripblock/trimblocks global settings. Now it fully corresponds to the origina jinja2
Fix bug with rendering parent block content if child doesn't override this block
Fix compilation issues with user-defined callables with number of arguments more than 2
Fix access to global Jinja2 functions from included/extended templates
Fix point of evaluation of macro params
Fix looping over the strings
Cleanup warnings

Breaking changes

From now with C++17 standard enabled Jinja2C++ uses standard versions of types variant, string_view and optional

Version 1.0.0

Changes and improvements

default attribute added to the map filter (#48)
escape sequences support added to the string literals (#49)
arbitrary ranges, generated sequences, input iterators, etc. now can be used with GenericList type (#66)
nonstd::string_view is now one of the possible types for the Value
filter tag support added to the template parser (#44)
escape filter support added to the template parser (#140)
capitalize filter support added to the template parser (#137)
the multiline version of set tag added to the parser (#45)
added built-in reflection for nlohmann JSON and RapidJSON libraries (#78)
loop.depth and loop.depth0 variables support added
{fmt} is now used as a formatting library instead of iostreams
robin hood hash map is now used for internal value storage
rendering performance improvements
template cache implemented in TemplateEnv
user-defined callables now can accept global context via *context special param
MinGW, clang >= 7.0, XCode >= 9, gcc >= 7.0 are now officially supported as a target compilers (#79)

Fixed bugs

Fixed pipe (|) operator precedence (#47)
Fixed bug in internal char <-> wchar_t converter on Windows
Fixed crash in parsing endblock tag
Fixed scope control for include and for tags
Fixed bug with macros call within expression context

Breaking changes

MSVC runtime type is now defined by JINJA2CPP_MSVC_RUNTIME_TYPE CMake variable

Version 0.9.2

Major changes

User-defined callables implemented. Now you can define your own callable objects, pass them as input parameters and use them inside templates as regular (global) functions, filters or testers. See details here: https://jinja2cpp.github.io/docs/usage/ud_callables.html
Now you can define global (template environment-wide) parameters that are accessible for all templates bound to this environment.
include, import and from statements implemented. Now it's possible to include other templates and use macros from other templates.
with statement implemented
do statement implemented
Sample build projects for various Jinja2C++ usage variants created: https://github.com/jinja2cpp/examples-build](https://github.com/jinja2cpp/examples-build)
Documentation site created for Jinja2C++: https://jinja2cpp.github.io

Minor changes

Render-time error handling added
Dependency management mode added to the build script
Fix bugs with error reporting during the parse time
Upgraded versions of external dependencies

Breaking changes

RenderAsString method now returns nonstd::expected instead of regular std::string
Templates with import, extends and include generate errors if parsed without TemplateEnv set
Release bundles (archives) are configured with external dependency management mode by default

Version 0.9.1

applymacro filter added which allows applying arbitrary macro as a filter
dependencies to boost removed from the public interface
CMake scripts improved
Various bugs fixed
Improve reflection
Warnings cleanup

Version 0.9

Support of 'extents'/'block' statements
Support of 'macro'/'call' statements
Rich error reporting
Support for recursive loops
Support for space control before and after control blocks
Improve reflection

Version 0.6

A lot of filters have been implemented. Full set of supported filters listed here: #7
A lot of testers have been implemented. Full set of supported testers listed here: #8
'Concatenate as string' operator ('~') has been implemented
For-loop with 'if' condition has been implemented
Fixed some bugs in parser

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Jinja2С++

Introduction

Getting started

Current Jinja2 support

Supported compilers

Build status

Build and install

Usage with conan.io dependency manager

Additional CMake build flags

Build with C++17 standard enabled

Acknowledgments

Changelog

Version 1.3.2

What's Changed

New Contributors

Version 1.3.1

Changes and improvements

Fixed bugs

Breaking changes

Version 1.2.1

Changes and improvements

Fixed bugs

Breaking changes

Version 1.1.0

Changes and improvements

Fixed bugs

Breaking changes

Version 1.0.0

Changes and improvements

Fixed bugs

Breaking changes

Version 0.9.2

Major changes

Minor changes

Breaking changes

Version 0.9.1

Version 0.9

Version 0.6