Re: loading plain files

That is the answer I was assuming ... but wanted to confirm ... sounds good.

Thanks for the response. Love the library.

-Luther



On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Attila Szegedi <[email protected]> wrote:

> There's no way to do it, and I don't think it'd be FreeMarker's
> responsibility to provide such capabilities.
>
> Except there IS of course a way to do it, which would be to write a
> custom TemplateLoader that wraps another loader, and makes sure that
> it edits the text stream of the resource so that anything that
> FreeMarker would recognize as its own markup (which would be "<#",
> "<@", (or "[#", "[@") and "${") gets escaped.
>
> OTOH, if you can be certain that the static files you have don't have
> anything in them that FreeMarker would recognize as its own markup,
> you can just put them in there -- FM will treat each of them as a
> template with single chunk of static text and render them very
> efficiently :-)
>
> Attila.
>
> On 2008.11.08., at 16:32, Luther Baker wrote:
>
> > For simplicity's sake, I would like to use freemarker to load both
> > *.ftl files and plain html/js/css files.
> >
> > IE: I am distributing a library (JAR) and include a few text files
> > in the classpath (src/main/resources per maven). When a request
> > comes into my framework, I modify the URL path and look for a *.ftl
> > file. If I find it, great, if I don't - I would like to look up the
> > RAW file and simply return it via freemarker unprocessed.
> >
> > a) Is that safe to do?
> > b) Is there a way I can tell freemarker 'load these .css and .js
> > files from the special FTL paths" but do not waste your time trying
> > to interpolate them. Just render them as is?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Luther
>
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