Re: How does one analyse a FreeMarker template??

Thanks Guo...

Guo Du wrote:
> FreeMarker is very dynamic, it's not easy to tell the output in
> runtime unless it's been rendered.
>   
I'm not actually trying to figure out the output that a template might 
produce.  I'm looking to get the "model" that describes a given 
FreeMarker template.  The TemplateElement (and its implementations) 
returned from the Template.getRootTreeNode() would be perfect for what I 
want, accept that all the interesting data they have is private and not 
exposed via getters - see the IteratorBlock and DollarVariable classes.
> Alternative, you could do static analysis the  template by track the
> template source used by provider your own template loader:
> freemarker.template.Configuration.setTemplateLoader
Sure... I wanted to avoid writing the template analysis code myself, if 
possible.  That sounds a bit like reinventing the wheel if this is 
something that the FreeMarker runtime API can already do.

Thanks for your help Guo!!!

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