Re: Looking for contributors as part of Apache incubation

Another complaint from one of our users was about the online
documentation. The site documentation looks good enough to me, but some
people might have felt a bit hard to find the proper info fast enough.

Regards,

Woonsan

On 6/2/15 9:31 AM, Woonsan Ko wrote:
> 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
> --------------------------------------
> 
>  - 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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