Re: Noweb Function's body without evaluation

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

suarezmiguelc@icloud.com writes:

> #+name: getClientInstanceNameNew
> #+begin_src shell :session something :var connection="admin@10.0.3.149" :var client="example_client" :var apacheDir="/etc/apache/vhosts"
> <<initSSH>>
> client=$client
> apacheDir=$apacheDir
> grep $client $apacheDir/*
> #+end_src
>
> So, the initSSH call works successfully, so that concludes my first question, being that I can now affect the $connection variable. Thank you again!
>
> However, since the SSH call changes the environment, the $client and $apacheDir variables are not defined in the new environment. I did try setting it again like above, but this doesn’t help as the variables do not exist.

Org babel knows not if the environment changes along the way.
Of course, you can break the variable in bash by calling "bash" as one of
the commands in src block. Or you can do more crazy staff and call
"python" (or, say, "ghci") interpreter. There is no sane way to handle
such weird scenarios programmatically.

I suggest you to write some kind of wrapper like

#+name: obl-identity
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var x=""
x
#+end_src

#+begin_src bash :noweb yes
<<initSSH>>
client=<<obl-identity(x="example_client")>>
#+end_src

This will not rely on language-specific way to define variables and
instead generate the code you want to execute fully, on Elisp side.

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