`ogma-cli`: Allow customizing the standalone application template

[ivanperez-keera]

Description

The standalone application generation backend uses a fixed template to generate the standalone application. That template does not fit all use cases, so we are finding users heavily modifying the output (which is hard to keep up with when there are changes), and or not using ogma altogether for that reason.

Allowing users to pick their own standalone template would make Ogma more versatile.

Type

• Feature: Enable customizing output produced.

Additional context

None.

Requester

• Ivan Perez.

Method to check presence of bug

Not applicable (not a bug).

Expected result

Ogma allows users to pick the custom standalone application template they want to use instead of relying on the one provided by default.

Desired result

Ogma allows users to pick the custom standalone application template they want to use instead of relying on the one provided by default.

Proposed solution

Modify ogma-core to use variable expansion based on mustache to create the output files.

Modify ogma-core's template to use the variables used by the standalone application generation module.

Modify ogma-core to give users the ability to pick a template directory via an optional input argument.

Modify ogma-cli to give users the ability to pick a template directory via an optional input argument (exposing the corresponding argument from ogma-core).

Modify README to demonstrate new capability.

Further notes

None.

[ivanperez-keera]

Change Manager: Confirmed that the issue exists.

[ivanperez-keera]

Technical Lead: Confirmed that the issue should be addressed.

[ivanperez-keera]

Technical Lead: Issue scheduled for fixing in Ogma 1.6.0.

Fix assigned to: @ivanperez-keera .