Team Members

Cedric Champeau <cedric dot champeau at lingway dot com>

Distributions

GFreeMarker 0.2

GFreeMarker 0.2 (javadoc)

GFreeMarker 0.2 (sources)

Installing

Pending.

Pre-requisites

None.

How does it work ?

Imagine your customer requires an URL Encoding text transform, and that FreeMarker does not offer this transformation. Then, you would just need to :

• Create a plugin named urlencoder that implements the IGroovyFreeMarkerPlugin interface
• Copy this plugin into the Groovy FreeMarker template engine plugins directory

That's all ! Now your customer can access it quite directly in the template. For example :

<@groovy plugin="urlencoder">this is an expression that will be converted to its URL Encoding form</@groovy>

Writing a plugin

Here's a sample plugin which converts a string through URL encoder :

import org.codehaus.groovy.gfreemarker.IGroovyFreeMarkerPlugin

class urlencoder implements IGroovyFreeMarkerPlugin {
        String transform(Map params, String content) {
                URLEncoder.encode(content);
        }
}

Using the template engine

Here's a sample code which shows how easy it is to embed FreeMarker as a template engine for Groovy.

import org.codehaus.groovy.gfreemarker.FreeMarkerTemplateEngine

def tpl = '''
Hello, ${user.name}
<@groovy plugin="urlencoder" mode=user>this is a test ${user.name}</@groovy>'''
def engine = new FreeMarkerTemplateEngine("plugins")
def binding = ["user" : ["name":"cedric"]]
println engine.createTemplate(tpl).make(binding)

This code assumes a directory called plugins is in the working directory. The template engine will dynamically load the ''urlencoder'' class.

Source Control

http://svn.codehaus.org/groovy-contrib/gfreemarker/trunk/

Building

GFreeMarker uses Maven2 as its build tool. Follow the instructions at http://maven.apache.org or install an IDE which has Maven 2 support (I personally use IntelliJ IDEA 7).

Contributing

Feel free to contribute, as I don't have much time to spend on this project.

Mailing List(s)

http://groovy.codehaus.org/Mailing+Lists

Issue tracker

N/A