How to deal with very large templates?

[DrewDennison]

Hello,

I'm using the mustache templates and I'm getting a Maximum String literal length exceeded message.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Maximum String literal length exceeded
	at scala.tools.asm.ByteVector.putUTF8(ByteVector.java:213)
	at scala.tools.asm.ClassWriter.newUTF8(ClassWriter.java:1092)
	at scala.tools.asm.ClassWriter.newString(ClassWriter.java:1560)
	at scala.tools.asm.ClassWriter.newConstItem(ClassWriter.java:1042)
	at scala.tools.asm.MethodWriter.visitLdcInsn(MethodWriter.java:1134)
	at scala.tools.asm.tree.LdcInsnNode.accept(LdcInsnNode.java:71)
	at scala.tools.asm.tree.InsnList.accept(InsnList.java:162)
	at scala.tools.asm.tree.MethodNode.accept(MethodNode.java:817)
	at scala.tools.asm.tree.MethodNode.accept(MethodNode.java:727)
	at scala.tools.asm.tree.ClassNode.accept(ClassNode.java:412)
	at scala.tools.nsc.backend.jvm.GenBCode$BCodePhase$Worker2.getByteArray$1(GenBCode.scala:291)
	at scala.tools.nsc.backend.jvm.GenBCode$BCodePhase$Worker2.addToQ3(GenBCode.scala:298)
	at scala.tools.nsc.backend.jvm.GenBCode$BCodePhase$Worker2.run(GenBCode.scala:274)
	at scala.tools.nsc.backend.jvm.GenBCode$BCodePhase.buildAndSendToDisk(GenBCode.scala:384)
	at scala.tools.nsc.backend.jvm.GenBCode$BCodePhase.run(GenBCode.scala:350)
	at scala.tools.nsc.Global$Run.compileUnitsInternal(Global.scala:1431)
	at scala.tools.nsc.Global$Run.compileUnits(Global.scala:1416)
	at scala.tools.nsc.Global$Run.compileSources(Global.scala:1412)
	at scala.tools.nsc.Global$Run.compile(Global.scala:1515)
	at org.fusesource.scalate.support.ScalaCompiler.compile(ScalaCompiler.scala:92)
	at org.fusesource.scalate.TemplateEngine.compileAndLoad(TemplateEngine.scala:809)
	at org.fusesource.scalate.TemplateEngine.compileAndLoadEntry(TemplateEngine.scala:745)
	at org.fusesource.scalate.TemplateEngine.liftedTree1$1(TemplateEngine.scala:446)
	at org.fusesource.scalate.TemplateEngine.load(TemplateEngine.scala:440)
	at org.fusesource.scalate.TemplateEngine.load(TemplateEngine.scala:495)
	at org.fusesource.scalate.TemplateEngine.layout(TemplateEngine.scala:593)

Is is possible to use a large template with another method or is it possible to add more documentation about how to deal with a large template file? My use case is generating emails and I'm embedding a css into a style section.

Thanks!

[pedrovgs]

I'm facing the same issue with an SSP template. The template is a commercial agreement and it's too long to be used as an HTML template :( Any workaround or fix we could provide?

[pedrovgs]

@DrewDennison as a workaround I've split my template into two template files. I guess you can do the same with your CSS file. This is not ideal at all, but it's the only way I've found to get it working 😃

[h-vetinari]

Same problem here...