Re: How does one analyse a FreeMarker template??

FWIW, at my company, we do exactly that - we use FreeMarker 2.3.x to render templates, and we have one developer who wrote a nifty static template analyser using 2.4 preview.

Attila.

On 2009.11.11., at 20:25, Jonathan Revusky wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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...)
> 
> Well, I would encourage Tom to use the 2.4 preview that is available.
> That, after all, is why one uses a preview or beta version of
> software, isn't it? That the bleeding edge stuff has features that you
> need that are lacking in the stable version.
> 
> In any case, one can continue to use 2.3.15 in production to render
> templates, but use the 2.4 for the software that analyzes templates,
> no?
> 
> JR
> 
> 
>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Tom.
>> 
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>  Daniel Dekany

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