Generate new note using templater API from another plugin

[LeonardoGentile]

I'd want to create a new note using the templater command/api Templater: Create new note from template from outside templater.

Context
I created some modules and scripts using https://github.com/polyipseity/obsidian-modules then I've created an almost black template that contains my user function entry point (defined as obsidian-modules)
So when templater generate a new note from this template, it executes my scripts that populate and move around the note. So far so good.

Now I wanted to embed all this logic into a single plugin, that means: my plugin will call templater create_new and pass my almost empty template to it. This template contains a single entry points to functions and module defined into my plugin.

How would I do that?

Is it as simple as passing my template path to create_new ? Also if my template contains user functions that are only stored in my plugin internals I don't think templater will be happy as user functions must be all defined under a certain path, isn't it?

Any hint will be highly welcome 🙏

[LeonardoGentile]

Otherwise, I was wondering if I could extend the internal function / variable dynamically as described here https://silentvoid13.github.io/Templater/internal-functions/contribute.html

Meaning that instead of creating a pr and submitting it, would it be possible if my plugin could extends templater at run-time? 🤔

[McGlear]

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
What do your current scripts do?

I use the modules plugin as well (because I wanted to import node packages like dedent) and programmatically create a string (well, a dedent-tagged Javascript template literal) containing my template that I then pass to tp.file.create_new(my_template_string, filename, false, folder). That works without any problems.
What kind of functionality are you trying to gain by creating your own plugin? And why shouldn't you be able to create whatever template you want and pass it to templater commands as arguments, whether you create that template within a personal plugin or a js module exported from the modules plugin?

[LeonardoGentile]

hello @McGlear thanks for your insight!
Yes, short after my question I've realized I can pass a string to create_new, that would solve part of my problem.
As it stands right now, I have a plain template that just call my entry point defined in obsidian-module. In there, I have a complex logic interfacing templater with metadata menu and presenting the user with several choices and popups, based on user choices it will generate specific notes from a unique generic templates.

Now I want to embed all this logic into a plugin that will act as a bridge between templater, metadata menu and few other plugins.
The thing is that my entry point as it is right now, using obsidian-module, is equivalent to a user script, that mean I can pass the tp instance to my entry point functions and call all the templater functionalities from my modules. This work as it should.

I want to reach the same functionalities by embedding all of this into a plugin.
When I trigger my plugin main action it will call create_new but to generate the string to feed into create_new I need to pass tp to my main functions that generate the template string.

I could create a simple templater template and in there call my entry point (so I could inject tp) but in this case my entry point is not a user function (it's not stored into templater user functions path) it's my plugin api, so this is the crux 🤔

I'm not sure I explained myself clearly, probably the solution is easier than I think but I can't see it from my point of view 🤷‍♂️

[McGlear]

I am still not sure if I understand you correctly, but I think you may want to look at how to access a plugin's API-object from other scripts and also at defining another plugin as something akin to a dependency.

If that does not help, you could try to provide a minimal working example of your current setup and restate your questions based on that example.