question

Hi Peter,

if you don't want to use the import functionality you can do it this way:

You create a shared.json file that contains everything you want to share between your documents, in your index.js you simply merge the files (shared.json and for example template.json) (i used the merge function of lodash for this) The result (document) of the merge can be passed to your directive afterwards.

shared.json

{
  "layouts": {
    "Foo": {
      "item": {
        "type": "Text",
        "text": "Shared"
      }
    }
  }
}

template.json

{
  "type": "APL",
  "version": "1.5",
  "layouts": {
    "Bar": {
      "item": {
        "type": "Text",
        "text": "Template"
      }
    }
  },
  "mainTemplate": {
    "parameters": ["payload"],
    "items": [{
      "type": "Foo"
    }, {
      "type": "Bar"
    }]
  }
}

index.js

const shared = require('./shared.json');
const layout = require('./template.json');
const { merge } = require('lodash');
const document = merge(layout, shared);
console.log(JSON.stringify(document, undefined, 2));

output:

{
  "type": "APL",
  "version": "1.5",
  "layouts": {
    "Bar": {
      "item": {
        "type": "Text",
        "text": "Template"
      }
    },
    "Foo": {
      "item": {
        "type": "Text",
        "text": "Shared"
      }
    }
  },
  "mainTemplate": {
    "parameters": [
      "payload"
    ],
    "items": [
      {
        "type": "Foo"
      },
      {
        "type": "Bar"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Hope this helps.

Regards, Alex