Re: Spring Custom Template Loader

Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 3:51:44 PM, Scott Purcell wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I wrote a custom freemarker.cache.TemplateLoader class that will
> use my database for pulling out the template data.
>
> I am using Spring and want to set this new TemplateLoader so I can
> try my new class.  How is this accomplished? I am looking at
> FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory but do not see anywhere unless it is
> a property to inject my custom loader into?

FreeMarker has no "setting" for that, which means you can't set that
in Spring inside <property name="freemarkerSettings">. The only way to
set it is through the API of the freemarker.template.Configuration
instance. Now, the loader is often specific to the Web application
framework, and thus the framework can have some assumptions about
it... so be careful with the replacement. For that reason using a
MultiTemplateLoader is maybe a good idea, where the first loader is
that you about to replace, and the second one is your custom one.

What is the best practice of doing the above under Spring, I don't
know right now out of my head. But be sure the replacement of Spring's
default TemplateLoader happens before multiple threads start accessing
the freemarker.template.Configuration object, i.e., before the serving
of the HTTP requests was started.

> Thanks, 
>
> Scott
>
>
>
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