edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.freemarker.loader

Class FreemarkerTemplateLoader

java.lang.Object

edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.freemarker.loader.FreemarkerTemplateLoader

All Implemented Interfaces:

freemarker.cache.TemplateLoader

public class FreemarkerTemplateLoader
extends Object
implements freemarker.cache.TemplateLoader

Loads Freemarker templates from a given directory. Different from a file loader in two ways: 1) Flattens the directory. When it searches for a template, it will look in the base directory and in any sub-directories. While doing this, it ignores any path that is attached to the template name. So if you were to ask for 'admin/silly.ftl', it would search for 'silly.ftl' in the base directory, and in any sub-directories, until it finds one. 2) Accepts approximate matches on locales. When asked for a template, it will accepts an approximate match that matches the basename and extension, and language or region if specifed. So a search for a template with no language or region will prefer an exact match, but will accept one with language or both language and region.

 "this_es_MX.ftl" matches "this_es_MX.ftl"
 "this_es.ftl"    matches "this_es.ftl" or "this_es_MX.ftl"
 "this.ftl"       matches "this.ftl" or "this_es.ftl" or "this_es_MX.ftl"
 

This allows Freemarker to mimic the behavior of the language filtering RDF service, because if Freemarker does not find a match for "this_es_MX.ftl", it will try again with "this_es.ftl" and "this.ftl". So the net effect is that a search for "silly_es_MX.ftl" would eventually return any of these, in order of preference:

 silly_es_MX.ftl
 silly_es.ftl
 silly_es_*.ftl
 silly.ftl
 silly_*.ftl
 

If more than one template file qualifies, we choose by best fit, shortest path, and alphabetical order, to insure that identical requests produce identical results.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
FreemarkerTemplateLoader(File baseDir)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	closeTemplateSource(Object templateSource) Nothing to do here.
Object	findTemplateSource(String name) Get the best template for this name.
long	getLastModified(Object templateSource) Ask the file when it was last modified.
Reader	getReader(Object templateSource, String encoding) Get a Reader on this File.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

FreemarkerTemplateLoader

public FreemarkerTemplateLoader(File baseDir)

Method Detail

findTemplateSource

public Object findTemplateSource(String name)
                          throws IOException

Get the best template for this name. Walk the tree finding all possible matches, then choose our favorite.

Specified by:

findTemplateSource in interface freemarker.cache.TemplateLoader

Throws:

IOException

getLastModified

public long getLastModified(Object templateSource)

Ask the file when it was last modified.

Specified by:

getLastModified in interface freemarker.cache.TemplateLoader

Parameters:

templateSource - a File that was obtained earlier from findTemplateSource().

getReader

public Reader getReader(Object templateSource,
                        String encoding)
                 throws IOException

Get a Reader on this File. The framework will close the Reader after reading it.

Specified by:

getReader in interface freemarker.cache.TemplateLoader

Parameters:

templateSource - a File that was obtained earlier from findTemplateSource().

Throws:

IOException

closeTemplateSource

public void closeTemplateSource(Object templateSource)
                         throws IOException

Nothing to do here. No resources to free up.

Specified by:

closeTemplateSource in interface freemarker.cache.TemplateLoader

Parameters:

templateSource - a File that was obtained earlier from findTemplateSource().

Throws:

IOException