Re: Looking for contributors as part of Apache incubation

Thank you very much, Daniel!

I have been very happy with Freemarker personally and so it's very hard
to find somethings I can hate, but I've just tried to list some wishes
and improvement ideas from our experiences below: :-)


FreemarkerServlet related improvements
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 - TLD initializations can be done in #init() phase to avoid initial
hiccups. We Hippo had to override the default servlet:
https://issues.onehippo.com/browse/HSTTWO-3299

 - #setContentType() invocation can check if it was already set before
template execution.
   Currently, it invoked on #setContentType() every time regardless of
the situation that (H)MVC framework sets it before executing the
template. I'd like to have an option to not set if already existing at
least. (ref: https://issues.onehippo.com/browse/HSTTWO-3012)

 - Configuration settings could be set through init parameters.
   Some servlet-related parameters are set through init parameters, but
it could be even better if there's any specific init-param(s) to set
Configuration settings without code changes.
   (ref: https://issues.onehippo.com/browse/HSTTWO-2525,
         https://issues.onehippo.com/browse/HSTTWO-2460)

 - Locale issue.
   Currently templates are executed with a specific global locale all
the time (FreemarkerServlet.deduceLocale() uses config.getLocale()). It
can be overriden though. This can result in wrong date/currency
formatting issue for instance (when using <@fmt.format* /> JSTL tags).
   It could have read HttpServletRequest#getLocale() by default.
Normally (H)MVC frameworks sets the request locale before rendering a view.

 -  More lightweight version.
    Sometimes our users want to use a more lightweight version instead
of FreemarkerServlet. Especially people who are very familiar with
Spring MVC Framework want that without having to set up a Freemarker
servlet configuration in web.xml. One hurdle for them was they cannot
easily take advantage of JSTL tag libraries if they don't use the
servlet. I wish we could have more lightweight component support with
which we can take advantage of JSTL tag support independently, without
having to set up a servlet.
    By the way, this might be a byproduct of spring mvc framework
integration probably.


I think this is it for now. :-)

Thanks again!

Cheers,

Woonsan


On 6/1/15 4:00 PM, Daniel Dekany wrote:
> So, Marijan and Woonasan. I'm especially interested in what Hippo
> needs, what FM features you miss the most there, and what existing
> "features" you hate the most.
> 
> Also, if in what topics you feel like contributing to. (Like Woonasan
> has mentioned Spring MVC integration. That would be very useful to
> improve.)
> 
> (And again, there will be a TODO list to pick from.)
> 


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