Re: loading plain files

Monday, November 17, 2008, 5:13:33 PM, Luther Baker wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:47 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Sunday, November 16, 2008, 8:50:40 PM, Luther Baker wrote:
>>
>> <snip../>
>>
>> All this complication is unnecessary. I mean, only the
>> not-exactly-perfect design of the FreeMarker caching/storage API-s
>> make it necessary... But we have this:
>>
>>
>> http://freemarker.org/docs/api/freemarker/template/Template.html#getPlainTextTemplate(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String,%20freemarker.template.Configuration)<http://freemarker.org/docs/api/freemarker/template/Template.html#getPlainTextTemplate%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String,%20freemarker.template.Configuration%29>
>>
>> so, you *can* safely parse "non-template templates" without escaping
>> tricks and like, only you can't explain to the TemplateCache to use
>> this method for parsing if the the template name doesn't end with ftl.
> 
> Ah ... where were you hiding this! :-)
> 
> Let me quick confirm ... the Reader for the ctor is just a simple reader I
> just created there on the spot. IE: doesn't have to be connected to the
> template in any way - the engine will do that for me. So - even after I read
> this template the first time, I have to set this up for every subsequent
> request for this template.

Well, I don't know what are you talking about. :) But what I said is
that FreeMarker already can parse "plain text" to Template, only you
can NOT use it yet, because you use a TemplateCache (indirectly), and
it will not use the getPlainTextTemplate method. And that we should
fix this, be adding the required public API-s.

> Also, the 'content' parameter for the method you exposed here
> (getPlainTextTemplate) ... what does that represent. I think the Javadoc is
> unclear. The descriptive name tells me 'content' ... yikes - but that is
> what I want you to read from the template file. So - is content just a
> label? IE: what does it mean "the block of text that this template
> represents".

The "content" is the text of the template. Like, in your case, the
content of "jQuery.js" file. (The other String parameer, "name", is
the *fake* file name of the template. That's useful for error messages
and to resolve relative paths.)

> Many thanks for your time,
> 
> -Luther

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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