Migrate to Freemarker from Velocity template engine in your NetBeans Module

You can follow the below steps for a easy migration from Velocity to Freemarker template engine in your module

• Convert all your velocity templates to equivalent Freemarker templates. There is a command line utility to convert velocity templates to Freemarker templates automatically. For more details click here.

• Change your module's layer.xml as below to mention the "javax.script.ScriptEngine" attributes as "freemarker" for your template.
  

                            <folder name="mytemplatefolder">
                                  <folder name="templates">
                                         <file name="mytemplate.java" url="nbresloc:templates/mytemplate.template">
                                            <attr name="position" intvalue="0"/>
                                            <attr name="javax.script.ScriptEngine" stringvalue="freemarker"/>
                                        </file>
                                  </folder>
                            </folder>

• Add JSR 223 Integration to Module Dependencies

•  To get the template FileObject  add/use following two methods in your module's code

                      public static FileObject getTemplateFile(String name) {
                            FileObject fo = getFolder() != null ? getFolder().getFileObject(name) : null;
                            return fo;
                      }

                      public static FileObject getFolder() {
                            if (folder == null) {
                                folder = Repository.getDefault().getDefaultFileSystem().findResource(templateFolder);
                            }
                            return folder;
                    }

         In the above example templateFolder value should be "mytemplatefolder/templates"

•  Call following method on template FileObject to merge and create the new file

            public final DataObject createFromTemplate(DataFolder f, String name, Map  parameters)

• You can also directly use the JSR 223 API for template processing and merging
  

Posted at 02:07AM Sep 07, 2007 by Satya Ranjan in NetBeans  |  Comments[1]