Dynamic Array

It can be sometime useful to generate dynamically some variables that are arrays.

The Jinja2 templating features allows to achieve this directly when defined a variable.
Here is an example:

cgit_stack_git_repos: >-
  {% set result = [] -%}
  {% for h in cgit_stack_repos -%}
  {% if h.src is not defined -%}
  {% set dummy = result.append({'name': h.name, 'desc': h.desc, 'parent_dir': cgit_stack_repos_dir + '/' + h.parent_dir}) -%}
  {% endif -%}
  {% endfor -%}
  {{ result }}

The important part are:

• the initialisation of the array: it must be empty []
• the use of the append function and its return in an unused variable
• the return of the array as a normal variable