Re: Freemarker Template Organization Best Practices?

Hi,

Well there are plenty of answers to this question.  Some practices I have
used on other projects (although) JSP based projects is to place the files
in a sub folder of WEB-INF.  This prevents users (hackers)
from inadvertently accessing templates you do not want them to access
directly (like your header/footer).  Using something like struts or stripes
in an MVC pattern your controller would then forward the request to the
template file for your page.

Another practice - and this is more stylistic - is to separate common layout
including header / footer files from your pages:
/WEB-INF/ftl/
                   layouts/....
                   pages/...

I then typically have a subfolder per page containing the layout definition
template and sub layout sections:
/WEB-INF/ftl/pages/search/
                                        search-layout.ftl
                                        search-lhs.ftl
                                        search-main.ftl
                                        search-rhs.ftl

Refactor as you go and the best practice should fall out.

Regards,
-Mike

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Keith Swallow <[email protected]>wrote:

> Greetings All,
>
> I followed the instructions provided by Daniel on adding a header and
> footer to a template. (
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.freemarker.user/4797) Things are
> working well (thanks Daniel!) and I was just wondering if there is a best
> practice or usage pattern that would be better than what I am doing.
>
> My idea was to organize my templates and macros where each section of the
> site has its own template path. Something like this:
>
> /templateRoot/common.ftl
> /templateRoot/myServlet/list.ftl <-- needs main.ftl for header and footer.
>
> To achieve this I overrode the requestUrlToTemplatePath method on the
> FreemarkerServlet as follows.
>
> @Override
> protected String requestUrlToTemplatePath( final HttpServletRequest request
> ) {
>    final String path = super.requestUrlToTemplatePath( request );
>    return this.getClass().getSimpleName() + path;
> };
>
> Is there a better way to do this (or something similar)? I have looked for
> a Freemarker Best Practices and haven't found a whole lot.
>
> Best,
>
> Keith
>
>
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