CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javafreemarker
user710818
user710818

Reputation: 24248

FreeMarker how to find corresponding java classes

I am investigating large project that uses FreeMarker. I am newbie to FreeMarker. How I can find which classes of java are used to receive values for templates? Investigate all project seems enormous work. Thanks. May be need some plugins for Eclipse?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 219

Answers (1)

ddekany
ddekany

Reputation: 31122

FreeMarker is a typical "dynamic language", which means refactoring/changing is hard. The templates don't declare what they expect to be in the data-model. Furthermore, when a template tries to read a value from the data-model, like with ${foo.bar}, it could mean foo.get("bar") or foo.getBar() or whatever the ObjectWrapper used makes possible, and it's only decided when the template is executed. Certainly you will need to fall back to good-old search-and-replace and lot of testing (a good test suite is essential...) if you change something. And of course, you could look at the place in the program where the data-model is built, and see what was put into it. Or dump the data-model somehow on runtime.

Upvotes: 2

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