FreeMarker

Luke,

On Friday 11 February 2005 07:45, Luke Shannon wrote:
> Hello;
>
> ...
>
> How hard is it to write files to the server (not direct output to the
> browser)? How much control would I have of the folder structure the
> files were written to? Is there example code for doing something
> similar to what I am asking?

Not hard at all.

I use FreeMarker to generate HTML from a template read from a file 
bundled either with a CLI form of the program or its Web-based form. In 
the former case, the output goes to a file in a directory specified via 
the command-line invocation and with a name generated in part by an 
invocation-supplied pattern that is optionally modified using status 
information about the computation that was performed. In the CLI form 
of the application, the command line also specifies which 
".ftl" (FreeMarker template) file to use. The data model in both cases 
is a custom one created by my code and not derived from a simple Map 
structure or from an XML source.


> Thanks,
>
> Luke


Randall Schulz

Hi Luke,

Here's some source code to write to a file:

        /* Create and adjust the configuration */
        Configuration cfg = new Configuration();
        cfg.setDirectoryForTemplateLoading(
                new File("templates"));
      
        /* Get or create a template */
        Template temp = cfg.getTemplate("test.ftl");

        /* Create a data model */
        Map model = new HashMap();
        model.put("blah", "blah");

        /* Merge data model with template */
        Writer out = new FileWriter("test.rtf");
        temp.process(model, out);
        out.flush();
        out.close();

As you can see, you can write to any file you wish, so yes, complete 
control over folder structure.

Best regards,

Assaf Urieli
Joliciel Informatique
http://www.joli-ciel.com

Luke Shannon wrote:

>How hard is it to write files to the server (not direct output to the
>browser)? How much control would I have of the folder structure the files
>were written to? Is there example code for doing something similar to what I
>am asking?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Luke
>
>
>
>
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This looks great!
I think this is the solution I am looking for.

Thanks,

Luke
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Assaf Urieli" <assaf@...>
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Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [FreeMarker-user] FreeMarker Question


> Hi Luke,
>
> Here's some source code to write to a file:
>
>         /* Create and adjust the configuration */
>         Configuration cfg = new Configuration();
>         cfg.setDirectoryForTemplateLoading(
>                 new File("templates"));
>
>         /* Get or create a template */
>         Template temp = cfg.getTemplate("test.ftl");
>
>         /* Create a data model */
>         Map model = new HashMap();
>         model.put("blah", "blah");
>
>         /* Merge data model with template */
>         Writer out = new FileWriter("test.rtf");
>         temp.process(model, out);
>         out.flush();
>         out.close();
>
> As you can see, you can write to any file you wish, so yes, complete
> control over folder structure.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Assaf Urieli
> Joliciel Informatique
> http://www.joli-ciel.com
>
> Luke Shannon wrote:
>
> >How hard is it to write files to the server (not direct output to the
> >browser)? How much control would I have of the folder structure the files
> >were written to? Is there example code for doing something similar to
what I
> >am asking?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Luke
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Friday, February 11, 2005, 4:45:50 PM, Luke Shannon wrote:

> Hello;
>
> I have a web application that generates a web site based on the data in a
> DB.
>
> Right now I create the html for each page in memory, adding in the dynamic
> content, and than write it to file using a plain old FileWriter.
>
> As you can imagine making changes to the html is a pain (all quotes need to
> be escaped, need to modified java code and update the server each time).
>
> I would like to have something like FreeMarker, where the presentation code
> is outside of the java code. This way changes can be made to the
> presentation of the page by someone who doesn't know java.

This is what FreeMarker is about.

> How hard is it to write files to the server (not direct output to the
> browser)? How much control would I have of the folder structure the files
> were written to?

Full control, since FreeMarker doesn't deal with such things. I mean, it
just writes output into a Wrier, and then where do you send/store that
is up to you. Basically it doesn't even know about Servlet-s or HTTP.

> Is there example code for doing something similar to what I
> am asking?

There are at least two projects that are about file generation: The
built in ANT task of FreeMarker, and FMPP (this last knows a lot of file
generation tricks, like when a single template generates multiple output
files itself, or when it renames its own output file, etc). But I guess
you will not need to look into those tricks doesn't require to much
FreeMarker specific knowledge.

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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Has anyone looked at using freemarker with andromda?  We're looking to 
use some MDA tool for some things we're doing here, but have a ton of 
existing freemarker templates we use for code generation.

AndroMDA has a pluggable interface for templates, but currently the only 
implementation is for Velocity.  It shouldn't be hard to make a facade 
for freemarker -- just wondering if anyone has done it...  See, 
http://team.andromda.org/docs/andromda-core/apidocs/org/andromda/core/templateengine/TemplateEngine.html

Marvin

I don't know about such an implementation - try asking the AndroMDA folks.  
Anyway, since the AndroMDA provides the extension point for template  
engines, if you developed a plugin, it should probably be contributed to  
AndroMDA. Drop us a note though if you succeed with it so we can list  
AndroMDA on the powered-by page :-)

Attila.

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:50:16 -0500, Marvin Greenberg  
<mgreenberg@...> wrote:

> Has anyone looked at using freemarker with andromda?  We're looking to  
> use some MDA tool for some things we're doing here, but have a ton of  
> existing freemarker templates we use for code generation.
>
> AndroMDA has a pluggable interface for templates, but currently the only  
> implementation is for Velocity.  It shouldn't be hard to make a facade  
> for freemarker -- just wondering if anyone has done it...  See,  
> http://team.andromda.org/docs/andromda-core/apidocs/org/andromda/core/templateengine/TemplateEngine.html
>
> Marvin
>