@TemplateMethod

I am building a Web Framework which will use Freemarker as the
preferred template engine. This WebFramework is heavily based on
annotations, and I am thinking about implementing a annotation way to
register any java methods as a TemplateMethod.

So, the concept will be

public class MyPojoClass{

   @TemplateMethod
   public String maxString(String orginalString){
     //some code
      return newString;
   }

   @TemplateMethod
   public String getDataOffset(Date ...){
     ...
    return fancyDateString; // 2 hours ago
   }

}


The idea, would be to call something like
configuration.addTemplateMethodsBean(myPojoClass) to register the
@TemplateMethod methods as Freemarker templateMethods. On invocation,
it will make the best possible job on type conversion, allowing the
Java developer to just worry about standard Java type and custom
application types.

Obviously, there could be extra params on the @TemplateMethod. Like
name (to override the function name), namespace to avoid conflict,
....

Anyway, this could be implemented with some TemplateMethodModelEx
proxy (which I will probably do), but I just wanted to share my
thoughts if to know if there is anything along those lines.


Jeremy,

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