From ee8b597b1f1ffa634189cdd8ab23f976f65dab7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:47:12 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] html/template: simplify ExecuteTemplate a little Allow the
 text template to handle the error case of no template with the given name.
 Simplification suggested by Mike Samuel.

R=mikesamuel
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5437147
---
 src/pkg/html/template/template.go | 15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pkg/html/template/template.go b/src/pkg/html/template/template.go
index f05ca190f73..fa2ed18874c 100644
--- a/src/pkg/html/template/template.go
+++ b/src/pkg/html/template/template.go
@@ -47,23 +47,22 @@ func (t *Template) Execute(wr io.Writer, data interface{}) (err error) {
 	return t.text.Execute(wr, data)
 }
 
-// ExecuteTemplate applies the template associated with t that has the given name
-// to the specified data object and writes the output to wr.
+// ExecuteTemplate applies the template associated with t that has the given
+// name to the specified data object and writes the output to wr.
 func (t *Template) ExecuteTemplate(wr io.Writer, name string, data interface{}) (err error) {
 	t.nameSpace.mu.Lock()
 	tmpl := t.set[name]
-	if tmpl == nil {
-		t.nameSpace.mu.Unlock()
-		return fmt.Errorf("template: no template %q associated with template %q", name, t.Name())
+	if (tmpl == nil) != (t.text.Lookup(name) == nil) {
+		panic("html/template internal error: template escaping out of sync")
 	}
-	if !tmpl.escaped {
+	if tmpl != nil && !tmpl.escaped {
 		err = escapeTemplates(tmpl, name)
 	}
 	t.nameSpace.mu.Unlock()
 	if err != nil {
 		return
 	}
-	return tmpl.text.ExecuteTemplate(wr, name, data)
+	return t.text.ExecuteTemplate(wr, name, data)
 }
 
 // Parse parses a string into a template. Nested template definitions
@@ -106,7 +105,7 @@ func (t *Template) AddParseTree(name string, tree *parse.Tree) error {
 
 // Clone is unimplemented.
 func (t *Template) Clone(name string) error {
-	return fmt.Errorf("html/template: Add unimplemented")
+	return fmt.Errorf("html/template: Clone unimplemented")
 }
 
 // New allocates a new HTML template with the given name.