Execute shared recipes from imported justfile?

[cubt85iz]

Is there a method for executing recipes from an imported justfile? For example,

shared.just

# Outputs message to stderr in standardized format.
stderr message level:
  >&2 echo "{{ level }}: {{ message }}"

test.just

import "shared.just"

# Echo a test message.
output:
  just stderr "test" "ERROR"

This is the result I receive when attempting to execute something similar.

error: Justfile does not contain recipe `stdout`

[casey]

What you're doing should work. import behaves as if the imported source file was inlined into the current source file, so you should be able to call the recipe directly using just RECIPE_NAME. I suspect that something else is wrong.

You can also invoke the recipe as a dependency:

output: (stderr "test", "ERROR")

[cubt85iz]

I thought so too, but here's the contents of each script and the execution process. I wonder what I'm missing. 🤔

automatos-server-dotfiles on  main [?] took 12s 
❯ cat shared.just
# Outputs message to stderr in standardized format.
stderr message level:
  >&2 echo "{{ level }}: {{ message }}"

automatos-server-dotfiles on  main [?] took 21s 
❯ cat test.just
import "shared.just"

# Echo a test message.
output:
  just stderr "test" "ERROR"
automatos-server-dotfiles on  main [?] took 2s 
❯ just -f test.just output
just stderr "test" "ERROR"
error: Justfile does not contain recipe `stderr`
error: Recipe `output` failed on line 5 with exit code 1

automatos-server-dotfiles on  main [?] took 7s 
❯ just --version
just 1.38.0

[cubt85iz]

Ah...so it needs it's own path.

shared.just

# Outputs message to stderr in standardized format.
stderr message level:
  @>&2 echo "{{ level }}: {{ message }}"

test.just

import "shared.just"

# Echo a test message.
output:
  @just -f "{{ justfile() }}" stderr "test" "ERROR"

automatos-server-dotfiles on  main [?] took 13s 
❯ just -f test.just output
ERROR: test

[cubt85iz]

Precedence is a little strange to me, but I could see why this could be intentional.

justfile

stderr message level:
  echo "Wrong one!"

test.just

import "shared.just"

# Echo a test message.
output:
  just stderr "test" "ERROR"

automatos-server-dotfiles on  main [?] took 1m17s 
❯ just -f test.just output
echo "Wrong one!"
Wrong one!