Recent changes to feature-requests

clearParams()

2003-07-31T21:59:45Z

Since I reuse the Template objects, I had to patch in a method to clear
the parameter memory.

public void clearParams()
{
if (!params.isEmpty()) {
params.clear();
dirty = true;
}
}

Would be nice if this made it into the official source =)

Distribution

2003-06-08T12:35:54Z

Please could you distribute it as a JAR file?

This would be the source plus compiled class files,
plus docs, all in one JAR file.

There are several advantages:

1. JAR files have a special system that enables one JAR
file to reference other JAR files that it requires, and
automatically include the contents in the Classpath.
This makes it much easier to deploy - you just download
the current JAR file, and drop it into the same
directory as the JAR fiel for your own application.

2. 99.9% of users will not have any reason to recompile
the source; providing them with a precompiled version
makes life a bit easier for many people (make files are
NOT widely used in java development; perhaps they
should be, but the fact is they aren't).

3. The official guidelines from Sun strongly suggest
(require?) that libraries be distributed as JAR files.
A small reason perhaps, but why not?

4. The Main-Class manifest attribute in a JAR file
enables people to launch the JAR with "java -jar". The
classic example of using this in a library is making
the test-class run automatically. This way, you have a
self-testing archive!

global_vars support

2002-09-03T14:50:03Z

i try to use following java code fragment:

.....
template.setParam("sessionID",sessionID);
template.setParam("newsloop",Newsmanager.getNews());
....

in html i try following:
.....
<tmpl_loop newsloop>
news: <tmpl_var news><br>
sessionID: <tmpl_var sessionID>
</tmpl_loop>
.....

the problem is, that the var "news" is correct set
inside the loop, but the outside of the loop declared
variable "sessionID" is not set.

Whats wrong, or how can i access tmpl_vars inside the
loop, which are not declared in the loop-hashtable?

html comment version

2002-03-21T13:27:03Z

Reallys needs to include the other form of tmpl_
quoting mechanism, that of being inside HTML comments

etc,

so that the HTML can be sucessfully passed through a
validator.