Template context

While using the generator tool, you may want dynamic values populated to your templates and rendered in the output. The generator can achieve that using the template context. The template context allows you to access the contents of the AsyncAPI document and inject dynamic values to the template files passed to the asyncAPI CLI during the generation process. The render engine then displays these dynamically assigned values in the output.

Generation process

1. The Generator receives Template and params as input.
2. The Generator sends to the Parser the asyncapiString which is a stringified version of the original AsyncAPI document.
3. The Parser validates the format of the asyncapiString using OpenAPI, RAML, or Avro schemas.
4. If the asyncapiString is valid, the parser manipulates it, returns a set of helper functions and properties, and bundles them into an asyncapi variable. The asyncapi variable is an instance of the AsyncAPI document. The helper functions and properties make it easier to access the contents of the AsyncAPI document in the template.
5. The Generator then passes the params, which are template-specific options used to customize the output, the Template files, and the asyncapi which collectively make up the Template Context.
6. The Template Context is then passed to the Render Engine. The Render Engine then injects all the dynamic values from the Template Context into the Template files.

Template context

The extra context passed to the render engine during the generation process and made accessible in the templates includes:

• originalAsyncAPI is a stringified version of the original AsyncAPI document that the user passed to the Generator.
• asyncapi is a parsed AsyncAPI document with helper functions and properties. You should use it to access document contents e.g asyncapi.title.
• params is an object with all the parameters passed to the Generator by the user.