please add cue as a native format

[kghenderson]

CUE is an intelligent configuration language and is a Go package.
We have many CUE files which are very clean and simple to manage, as well as some gomplate templates.
It would be really great if we could import these files directly without needing a cue to json pre-processing step.
thank you for considering.

[hairyhenderson]

Hey @kghenderson, thanks for filing this!

I'm totally on board with CUE support.

[kghenderson]

nice! you know I got free tickets to see harry & the henderson's movie when I was a little kid. I think they knew that if I was going to be tormented at school for it, I might as well get to see it for free 🤷

[hairyhenderson]

😂

[kghenderson]

haha, yeah, good times :-)

fyi, i also created a companion issue over here:
cue-lang/cue#2212

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[hairyhenderson]

I'm guessing this is still desired? I don't have any objection, but I don't personally have time to do this any time soon.

[kghenderson]

yes, it's still desired, no worries about the time - i can try this myself at some point but don't have time now either :-/

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[kghenderson]

bump to keep alive, still an avid gomplate user :-)

[hairyhenderson]

@kghenderson I see the cue-lang/cue#2212 issue - does that need to exist? I'm not sure how it's relevant to the CUE-lang project itself...

[hairyhenderson]

Oh, also - @kghenderson would you be able to share some examples (anonymized if you need) of your current workflow? Specifically I'm interested in what you're doing now as your cue-to-json preprocessing step.

[adriens]

I had never heard about cue but I'm also very interested in this tool. As we use gomplate I think this could be add significant benefits to our toolchain 🤔 🤩

[hairyhenderson]

I've been toying around with what CUE support could look like in #1781. There are a few things that CUE supports that might be a bit challenging to implement (most notably the ability to import from other files), but otherwise it's relatively straightforward.