Re: How to generate the output for a given java collection object

Ok.I think i want to see  a proffessionaly written  ftl sample file.Could you point me to any such  file from web or personally you might have written.I just want to know how a ftl file looks like in a real time application.
 
Thanks,
Rajvinder

From: Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
To: Rajvinder Pal <[email protected]>
Cc: FreeMarker-user <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: [FreeMarker-user] How to generate the output for a given java collection object

Saturday, September 24, 2011, 7:28:40 PM, Rajvinder Pal wrote:

> Thanks, in that case i will prefer to write template with proper
> formating.I will use compress directive in template and let browser format the html display for me.

I would not use compress, unless the bandwidth you save indeed
matters. It's a *runtime* compression, and is actually yet another
legacy, from FM 1.x I believe.

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel Dekany

> Regards,
> Rajvinder
>  
>
>
> From: Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
> To: Rajvinder Pal <[email protected]>
> Cc: FreeMarker-user <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 10:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [FreeMarker-user] How to generate the output for a given java collection object
>
> Saturday, September 24, 2011, 5:00:00 PM, Rajvinder Pal wrote:
>
>> Thanks Daniel! finally i am able to get the expected output  with your suggesstion:-
>>  
>> <#list itemMap?keys as key>
>> ${key}
>> <#list itemMap(key) as item>${item} </#list>
>> </#list>
>>  
>> I was trying to evaluate the FreeMarker for a requirement to
>> generate the html table dynamically.I felt FreeMarker is bit tricky
>> to solve the problem.
>
> Well, there are some old warts (legacies...) that users has to get
> over... the two main warts are that FTL has no map type (only a
> string-keys-only one) and that FTL doesn't have null (but treats
> null-s coming from Java as missing variables).
>
>> But the mailing list response is amazing.te
>> with respect to generating output i am facing one more challenge it
>> may be very silly to ask but since i am new to FreeMarker i want to
>> know, how can we write  template with proper indention but still
>> able to get the get the output html  in proper indention.
>
> Sadly, you can't... nor in any other template language that I know of.
> It's actually a rather tricky thing to do properly (much easier to do
> almost properly), unless the template language understands HTML/XML
> (FreeMarker doesn't), AND you are generating HTML/XML, and even then
> it would mean some runtime overhead. You may find some tricks here
> regarding white-space handling:
>
>  http://freemarker.org/docs/dgui_misc_whitespace.html
>
> but they won't give you proper indentation.
>
>> for example suppose my template logic looks like:-
>>  
>> for each bean
>>    print <beean.....
>>    <# if condition.....>
>>        <#if condition .... >
>>                <#if condition >
>>                        print <inner tag.......
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> The above logic will print something similar to this:-
>>  
>>            <bean.....
>>                                <inner
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> IN the above output, indention is too much for second .
>> How can we have template as well generated output in proper xml
>> type format? i mean with proper indention
>
> You had to apply something on the output Writer that understands the
> output format and reformats it... Of course, that will have its cost
> in resource usage.
>

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