Apache Velocity Engine

[gustavogalvan]

Can you add a template module for Apache Velocity ?
Thanks so much !

[decebals]

@gustavogalvan Can you help me with some velocity templates? Now in resources/templates/pippo are some templates copied from freemarker project and I want to translate these templates from freemarker syntax to velocity syntax but I am a newbie in velocity.

[gustavogalvan]

I'm not in my workplace but I do not want to delay you, so...

• $welcome is ok for an String;
• for HashMap <String, String> data (with "car","ferrari"): $data.car = ferrari
• for HashMap <String, String[]> data (with "cars",["ferrari","fiat","ford"]):
  #foreach($car in ${data.cars})

  $car

  #end

#include: includes a file without processing vars
#parse: includes a file processing vars

I now this is not much but I hope it helps.
Sorry and thanks.

[decebals]

I finished the implementation. Probably I must make some adjustments but the module is 100% functional (webjarsAt, publicAt, ....). You can test with VelocityDemo from pippo-demo-template.
From my experience with this implementation I don't recommend you velocity as template engine from these reasons:

• the last release (1.7) is from 2010
• no support for template inheritance (if you want to create sites with a base template)
• no support for external extensions/methods/helpers and for this reason I must use PippoHandler from jade template.

@gitblit What you say if we rename the PippoHandler to TemplateHandler(or a better name) and move this class in core? We used this class in two templates engine (Jade and Velocity) and is a general solution for template engines that don't have support for external methods.

Please review and comment the pippo-velocity implementation (brnach). Any advice, observation is welcome.

[gitblit]

Generally I like the idea of having one implementation but PippoHandler depends on pretty-time which means adding a compile-time dependency to pippo-core. I suppose it could be specified as optional in pippo-core and required in the template engine poms...