Re: In 2.3.19, sharing cache storage

If being able to inspect the AST was the only objective, I think my current freemarker-introspection projection would be of interest to Jaime:

        https://github.com/cwong15/freemarker-introspection

But my impression is that Jaime actually wants to change the behavior of Freemarker itself for his needs. In which case, what he wants is the ability to extend Freemarker, which is a whole different set of needs from simply being able to passively inspect a template outside of Freemarker's template processing.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Dekany [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 8:32 PM
To: Jaime Garza
Cc: Daniel Dekany
Subject: Re: [Freemarker-devel] In 2.3.19, sharing cache storage

Thursday, July 24, 2014, 12:40:21 AM, Jaime Garza wrote:
> My only ask would be if more classes were public and non-final. That would be lovely!

The more I expose from the internal(ish...) classes, the more difficult will it be to fix/evolve anything without breaking backward compatibility. It become obvious that traversing the AST would be important for many users. Even modifying it for some. However, exposing the AST directly would be a rather risky step. Instead, FM will have to introduce another library, like, freemarker-inspector or something, that defines a logical AST-like view of a template with a published API, and which depends on the FreeMarker internals, and is maintained together with FreeMarker... Or what other API would you need to be published?


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