Re: A tool to analyze your templates

by Simon Gubler :: Rate this Message:

Nathan Bubna schrieb:

> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Simon Gubler <sgubler@...> wrote:
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>> Hi Ahmed
>>
>> I have to say, that I don't use the velocity API, I basically scan the files
>> for #foreach, #end and ${.*} or $!{.*} Expressions and list them in the
>> outputfile. When I have time (probably next month) I will look into the
>> velocity API. If I can use it I won't have to implement the grammar myself.
>>
>
> When you do that, referencing the following might help:
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/velocity/engine/trunk/experimental/templatetool/
>
> it's an old experiment. i've no idea if it still works, but it had a
> similar goal.
>
>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Ahmed Mohombe <amohombe@...> wrote:
>>
>> > I think it has to know this because if you have for example #foreach($day
>> > > in
>> > > ${days}) you don't want to include the variable ${day} in the list but
>> > > rather ${days}.
>> > > Do you agree with me?
>> > >
>> > Of course.
>> > I just thought that the Velocity AST is able to distinct between "local
>> > variabls" like
>> > $day and "global" ones.
>> >
>> >
>> > Ahmed.
>> >
>> >
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Hi everyone

As I said earlier, I've worked on the tool and rebuilt it. Now it works
with the velocity API that Nathan Bubna has given me. Instead of putting
all the refernces in a list I build a tree structure where the
references are leaves and the #foreach-loops are nodes.
TemplateAnalyzer_TreeGui.jar shows this structure in a Swing-GUI as a
JTree.
Execute it like this: java -jar TemplateAnalyzer_TreeGui.jar foo.vm
foo.vm is the name of the template.

You can download the new version 1.1 here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=226718.

I hope you can use it to get an overview of your templates.

Kind regards

Simon

PS: @Ahmed: To scan for the used references for the user written
templates I would recommend you to use the TemplateTool from Nathan
Bubna: Just get your template, call TemplateTool.referenceList() with
the template as parameter, and look at each entry in the returned list
if it contains a forbidden reference.

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