From 6cb121d4e8aeda3ffbb423872bde2c002a47e24e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ida=20=C5=A0tambuk?= <ida.stambuk@grafana.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:42:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [release-12.0.2] Dashboard: Support
 TemplateSrv.containsTemplate in scenes context (#106535)

Dashboard: Support TemplateSrv.containsTemplate in scenes context (#104072)

(cherry picked from commit 82184686dc5b6f5f4b0844c4235687fe3282df08)

Co-authored-by: Haris Rozajac <58232930+harisrozajac@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .../features/templating/template_srv.test.ts  | 23 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../app/features/templating/template_srv.ts   |  9 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.test.ts b/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.test.ts
index 58da8d87c04..f8d3f836e5f 100644
--- a/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.test.ts
@@ -904,6 +904,29 @@ describe('templateSrv', () => {
       expect(podVar.current.text).toEqual(['podA', 'podB']);
     });
 
+    it('Can use containsTemplate to check if a variable exists', () => {
+      window.__grafanaSceneContext = new EmbeddedScene({
+        $variables: new SceneVariableSet({
+          variables: [
+            new QueryVariable({ name: 'server', value: 'serverA', text: 'Server A', query: { refId: 'A' } }),
+            new QueryVariable({ name: 'pods', value: ['pA', 'pB'], text: ['podA', 'podB'], query: { refId: 'A' } }),
+            new DataSourceVariable({ name: 'ds', value: 'dsA', text: 'dsA', pluginId: 'prometheus' }),
+            new CustomVariable({ name: 'custom', value: 'A', text: 'A', query: 'A, B, C' }),
+            new IntervalVariable({ name: 'interval', value: '1m', intervals: ['1m', '2m'] }),
+          ],
+        }),
+        body: new SceneCanvasText({ text: 'hello' }),
+      });
+
+      window.__grafanaSceneContext.activate();
+
+      expect(_templateSrv.containsTemplate('${server}')).toBe(true);
+      expect(_templateSrv.containsTemplate('${pods}')).toBe(true);
+      expect(_templateSrv.containsTemplate('${ds}')).toBe(true);
+      expect(_templateSrv.containsTemplate('${custom}')).toBe(true);
+      expect(_templateSrv.containsTemplate('${interval}')).toBe(true);
+    });
+
     it('Should return timeRange from scenes context', () => {
       window.__grafanaSceneContext = new EmbeddedScene({
         body: new SceneCanvasText({ text: 'hello' }),
diff --git a/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.ts b/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.ts
index babc6d2cbd4..9e0a22adb53 100644
--- a/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.ts
@@ -200,6 +200,15 @@ export class TemplateSrv implements BaseTemplateSrv {
     if (!target) {
       return false;
     }
+
+    // Scenes compatability
+    if (window.__grafanaSceneContext && window.__grafanaSceneContext.isActive) {
+      // We are just checking that this is a valid variable reference, and we are not looking up the variable
+      this.regex.lastIndex = 0;
+      const match = this.regex.exec(target);
+      return !!match;
+    }
+
     const name = this.getVariableName(target);
     const variable = name && this.getVariableAtIndex(name);
     return variable !== null && variable !== undefined;