Formatting template fields 

Giter8 has built-in support for formatting template fields. Formatting options can be added when referencing fields. For example, the name field can be formatted in upper camel case with:

$name;format="Camel"$

The formatting options are:

upper      | uppercase       : all uppercase letters
lower      | lowercase       : all lowercase letters
cap        | capitalize      : uppercase first letter
decap      | decapitalize    : lowercase first letter
start      | start-case      : uppercase the first letter of each word
word       | word-only       : remove all non-word letters (only a-zA-Z0-9_)
space      | word-space      : replace all non-word letters (only a-zA-Z0-9) with a whitespace
Camel      | upper-camel     : upper camel case (start-case, word-only)
camel      | lower-camel     : lower camel case (start-case, word-only, decapitalize)
hyphen     | hyphenate       : replace spaces with hyphens
norm       | normalize       : all lowercase with hyphens (lowercase, hyphenate)
snake      | snake-case      : replace spaces and dots with underscores
dotReverse | dot-reverse     : tokenizes by dot and reverses the tokens (scala-lang.org -> org.scala-lang)
package    | package-naming  : replace spaces with dots
packaged   | package-dir     : replace dots with slashes (net.databinder -> net/databinder)
random     | generate-random : appends random characters to the given string

A name field with a value of My Project could be rendered in several ways:

$name$ -> "My Project"
$name;format="camel"$ -> "myProject"
$name;format="Camel"$ -> "MyProject"
$name;format="normalize"$ -> "my-project"
$name;format="lower,hyphen"$ -> "my-project"

Note that multiple format options can be specified (comma-separated) which will be applied in the order given.

For file and directory names a format option can be specified after a double underscore. For example, a directory named $organization__packaged$ will change org.somewhere to org/somewhere like the built-in support for package. A file named $name__Camel$.scala and the name awesome project will create the file AwesomeProject.scala. Multiple comma separated formatting options can be used at once: $name__lower,hyphen$.scala and the name Awesome Project will create the file awesome-project.scala.