Re: How does one analyse a FreeMarker template??

Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 12:14:25 AM, Tom Fennelly wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I would like to be able to analyse a FreeMarker template. I thought I 
> had the answer when I saw I could access the root TemplateElement 
> through the Template instance, but alas, when I look closer (at 
> IteratorBlock, DollarVariable etc) I see that the info I'd like access
> to on these objects is private, with no getter methods etc.
>
> Is there another way I can go about this?

There isn't... except, of course, that you copy the relevant parts of
the project, creating your own parser for this purpose. The license
allows that. (FM 2.4 will have much better API for this kind of thing,
as you can see in 2.4preview-1 release, but it's a question if there
will be a 2.4-final ever...)

> Regards,
>
> Tom.

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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