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So, I have this file PROJECT_ROOT/dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory.conf, and it is a template intended for use with pallet.template. In the past (when it wasn't a template), I have successfully done

(remote-file/remote-file "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/battletheory.conf" 
                         :local-file "dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory.conf")

Now I need battletheory.conf to be a template, so I am trying

(remote-file/remote-file "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/battletheory.conf"
                         :local-file "dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory.conf")

This gives a no-likey: 

... yadda yadda ...
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at clojure.lang.Reflector.invokeNoArgInstanceMember(Reflector.java:263)
	at pallet.utils$load_resource_url.invoke(utils.clj:54)
	at pallet.template$interpolate_template.invoke(template.clj:68)
	at pallet.action.remote_file$fn__5644$fn__5646$fn__5672.invoke(remote_file.clj:189)
	at pallet.action.remote_file$fn__5644$fn__5646.doInvoke(remote_file.clj:185)
	at clojure.lang.RestFn.applyTo(RestFn.java:143)
	at clojure.core$apply.invoke(core.clj:542)
	at pallet.action_plan$apply_action$fn__3190.invoke(action_plan.clj:283)
	at pallet.action_plan$eval3244$fn__3245$fn__3246$fn__3247.invoke(action_plan.clj:345)
	at clojure.core$map$fn__3695.invoke(core.clj:2096)
	at clojure.lang.LazySeq.sval(LazySeq.java:42)
	... 39 more

So I have been looking at the source for pallet.template and pallet.utils. 

David-Santiagos-Computer:servlet David$ cake repl
user=> (use 'pallet.template)
nil
user=> (find-template "dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory.conf" {:server "blah"})
nil
user=> (def cand-templs #'pallet.template/candidate-templates)
#'user/cand-templs
user=> (cand-templs "dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory.conf" "stage" {})
("dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory_stage.conf" "resources/dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory_stage.conf" "dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory_unknown.conf" "resources/dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory_unknown.conf" "dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory_unknown.conf" "resources/dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory_unknown.conf" "dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory.conf" "resources/dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory.conf")
user=> (some get-resource (cand-templs "dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory.conf" "stage" {}) )
nil

So, note that when I call cand-templs with the path to the file, it does generate the file itself as one of the possibilities (the penultimate). However, the following line, which is more or less the exact thing pallet.template/find-template does, fails to load the file. Indeed, 

user=> (get-resource "dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory.conf")
nil
user=> (get-resource "/dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory.conf")
nil
user=> (slurp "dev-resources/config/nginx/battletheory.conf")
...the contents of the file...

So I guess my questions are, 1) is this desirable behavior? 2) What the heck do I do to make pallet.template work?