Unable to load HTML templates from subdirectories with Gin - go

Question

I'm having n issue with loading html files with go gin framework
when i loaded the entire templates folder from the main function its not reading the subdirectories and only read files .
package app
import (
"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)
var (
router = gin.Default()
)
func StartApp() {
router.LoadHTMLGlob("templates/*/*.html")
routersMap()
router.Run(":8080")
}
based on the project structure it supposed to show the Loaded HTML Templates as
[GIN-debug] Loaded HTML Templates (2):
- layouts/default.html
- layouts/index.html
- pages/index.html
but actually the output showing this result
[GIN-debug] Loaded HTML Templates (3):
- default.html
- index.html
-
it doesn't even showing the second index.html file
Project Structure

Answer 1

I am also working on learning go and using gin.
I came across this issue also and ran into a few minor issues that i resolved.
I will leave this here in case it may someone else.
Folder layout:
.
├── controllers
│ ├── controller.go
│ └── gui.go
├── html
│ └── templates
│ ├── homepage
│ │ └── index.html
│ ├── layouts
│ │ ├── footer.html
│ │ ├── header.html
│ │ └── menu.html
│ └── views
│ └── library.html
├── models
│ ├── bookstruct.go
│ └── dbconnection.go
├── server.go
└── test
└── server_test.go
The part that is probably needed are these files:
server.go
gui.go
library.html
gui.go
package controllers
import (
"net/http"
"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)
...
// BooksView display book library
func BooksView(c *gin.Context) {
c.HTML(
http.StatusOK,
"views/library.html",
gin.H{"title": "Books"},
)
}
library.html
{{ define "views/library.html" }}
<!--Embed the header.html template at this location-->
{{ template "layouts/header.html" .}}
<h1>Hello Books!</h1>
<div>Est nisi debitis recusandae necessitatibus voluptate ut. Laudantium eligendi nostrum quisquam voluptates harum
exercitationem nam harum. Voluptatem sit assumenda sit alias dolores. Modi autem et temporibus impedit qui numquam.
Esse ut recusandae quos deserunt nihil repellendus. Sint et voluptatem quia quia dolor aut.</div>
<div>Est nisi debitis recusandae necessitatibus voluptate ut. Laudantium eligendi nostrum quisquam voluptates harum
exercitationem nam harum. Voluptatem sit assumenda sit alias dolores. Modi autem et temporibus impedit qui numquam.
Esse ut recusandae quos deserunt nihil repellendus. Sint et voluptatem quia quia dolor aut.</div>
<!--Embed the footer.html template at this location-->
{{ template "layouts/footer.html" .}}
{{ end }}
server.go
import (
c "go_first_api/sub_packages/gormrestapi/controllers"
m "go_first_api/sub_packages/gormrestapi/models"
"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
"github.com/rs/zerolog"
)
// RunServer will run and create a server using gin
func RunServer() {
...
r := gin.Default()
r.LoadHTMLGlob("sub_packages/gormrestapi/html/templates/**/*")
r.GET("/library", c.BooksView)
...
r.Run(":8088")
}
NOTE: main.go is above this sub-dir in the folder path.

Answer 2

See gin#html-rendering,
Using templates with same name in different directories templates/**/*.