Include a Freemarker template from repo in another Freemarker template

[Arje Cahn]

Hi guys,

Quick question.

I have my Freemarker templates stored in the repository. I want to add another Freemarker template in my repo with a bunch of reusable <#macro>s, and include that file from my other templates.

This works for templates on the filesystem:

<#include "/WEB-INF/lib/htmlTags.ftl">

Do we have an equivalent for including templates in the repo?

Arje

[Ard Schrijvers]

I am not sure if I got it working in the past, but I think you could try

<#include "repository://absolute/repo/path/to/htmlTags.ftl">

Let me know it that helps. I can't even completely recall if I got it
working in the past or whether it was still a todo

Regards Ard

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[Joeri de Gooijer]

Well I tried it like this in the layout.webpage.ftl template.

I changed the include from:

<#include "/WEB-INF/lib/htmlTags.ftl">

to

<#include "repository://hst:hst/hst:configurations/commononehippo/hst:templates/htmlTags.ftl">

That didnt work however.

The log shows:

[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] 04.02.2014 13:01:54 ERROR [freemarker.log.Log4JLoggerFactory$Log4JLogger.error():96] Template processing error: "Expression hst is undefined on line 98, column 7 in jcr:/hst:hst/hst:configurations/commononehippo/hst:templates/layout.webpage.ftl."

So appearantly the hst variable in the htmlTags.ftl is not available in the layout.webpage.ftl template now.

htmlTags.ftl:

<#ftl encoding="UTF-8">

<#assign hst=JspTaglibs["http://www.hippoecm.org/jsp/hst/core"] >

<#assign fmt=JspTaglibs ["http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt"] >

<#assign zohotags=JspTaglibs["http://onehippo.com/jsp/connect/zoho/tags"] >

...

...more stuff here

...

<@hst.defineObjects />

[Ard Schrijvers]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Joeri de Gooijer <j.deg...@1hippo.com> wrote:
> Well I tried it like this in the layout.webpage.ftl template.
> I changed the include from:
> <#include "/WEB-INF/lib/htmlTags.ftl">
> to
> <#include
> "repository://hst:hst/hst:configurations/commononehippo/hst:templates/htmlTags.ftl">
>
> That didnt work however.
>
> The log shows:
> [INFO] [talledLocalContainer] 04.02.2014 13:01:54 ERROR
> [freemarker.log.Log4JLoggerFactory$Log4JLogger.error():96] Template
> processing error: "Expression hst is undefined on line 98, column 7 in
> jcr:/hst:hst/hst:configurations/commononehippo/hst:templates/layout.webpage.ftl."
>
> So appearantly the hst variable in the htmlTags.ftl is not available in the
> layout.webpage.ftl template now.

I vaguely recall I tried this in the past. Does not work currently.

Regards Ard

[Joeri de Gooijer]

Ok, thanks for replying Ard!

[Ard Schrijvers]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Joeri de Gooijer <j.deg...@1hippo.com> wrote:
> Ok, thanks for replying Ard!

Note that I think it should be possible to fix it. I just don't really
recall any more the exact issues. Was couple of years back already. If
needed I can check it out again some day

Regards Ard

[Woonsan Ko]

On 2/4/14 6:35 AM, Ard Schrijvers wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Arje Cahn <a.c...@onehippo.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Quick question.
>> I have my Freemarker templates stored in the repository. I want to add
>> another Freemarker template in my repo with a bunch of reusable <#macro>s,
>> and include that file from my other templates.
>>
>> This works for templates on the filesystem:
>> <#include "/WEB-INF/lib/htmlTags.ftl">
>>
>> Do we have an equivalent for including templates in the repo?
>
> I am not sure if I got it working in the past, but I think you could try
>
> <#include "repository://absolute/repo/path/to/htmlTags.ftl">

I haven't ever tried it, but based on [1] I guess you should have
recommended using "jcr:" instead of "repository:".
So,

<#include "jcr:/absolute/repo/path/to/htmlTags.ftl">

Might be one more try? :)

[1]
http://svn.onehippo.org/repos/hippo/hippo-cms7/site-toolkit/trunk/client/src/main/java/org/hippoecm/hst/freemarker/RepositoryTemplateLoader.java

>
> Let me know it that helps. I can't even completely recall if I got it
> working in the past or whether it was still a todo
>
> Regards Ard
>
>>
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[Ard Schrijvers]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Woonsan Ko <w....@onehippo.com> wrote:
> On 2/4/14 6:35 AM, Ard Schrijvers wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Arje Cahn <a.c...@onehippo.com> wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> Quick question.
>>> I have my Freemarker templates stored in the repository. I want to add
>>> another Freemarker template in my repo with a bunch of reusable <#macro>s,
>>> and include that file from my other templates.
>>>
>>> This works for templates on the filesystem:
>>> <#include "/WEB-INF/lib/htmlTags.ftl">
>>>
>>> Do we have an equivalent for including templates in the repo?
>>
>> I am not sure if I got it working in the past, but I think you could try
>>
>> <#include "repository://absolute/repo/path/to/htmlTags.ftl">
>
> I haven't ever tried it, but based on [1] I guess you should have
> recommended using "jcr:" instead of "repository:".
> So,
>
> <#include "jcr:/absolute/repo/path/to/htmlTags.ftl">
>
> Might be one more try? :)

Ah, yeah, it should be jcr: :). Nice catch!

Certainly worth another try, although I thought the #include did not
work with the jcr: prefix. Or perhaps it does work, but invalidation
did not work. I thought something did not work :)

Regards Ard

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[Joeri de Gooijer]

Hmm gave it a shot but

<#include "jcr:/hst:hst/hst:configurations/commononehippo/hst:templates/htmlTags.ftl">

Gives me the same log error.

[Arje Cahn]

Changing that to jcr:// did seem to help - looks like the template now at least gets resolved.

But I still get errors.

Putting this on my wish list.

Arje

[Ard Schrijvers]

Op 4 feb. 2014 23:25 schreef "Arje Cahn" <a.c...@onehippo.com> het volgende:

>
> Changing that to jcr:// did seem to help - looks like the template now at least gets resolved.
> But I still get errors.
> Putting this on my wish list.

Ideally you could use a relative location within the repository such that you would not need the jcr:// at all. Indeed i experienced some issues with including templates it the past. Did not look into it how hard it was to solve.

Regards ard

[marijan milicevic]

I just checked this,

and includes are resolved *relative* to your source file, so, for example, if you have myhome.ftl:

/hst:hst/hst:configurations/democommon/hst:templates/myhome.ftl

with following include file

<#include "myinclude.ftl">

include will be resolved to:

/hst:hst/hst:configurations/democommon/hst:templates/myinclude.ftl

cheers

marijan

[Ard Schrijvers]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:27 PM, marijan milicevic
<m.mil...@onehippo.com> wrote:
> I just checked this,
> and includes are resolved *relative* to your source file, so, for example,
> if you have myhome.ftl:
>
> /hst:hst/hst:configurations/democommon/hst:templates/myhome.ftl
>
> with following include file
> <#include "myinclude.ftl">
>
> include will be resolved to:
> /hst:hst/hst:configurations/democommon/hst:templates/myinclude.ftl

Nice!

do you know if relative includes also work? For example ../../common/foo.ftl

Regards Ard

[marijan milicevic]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Ard Schrijvers <a.schr...@onehippo.com> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:27 PM, marijan milicevic
<m.mil...@onehippo.com> wrote:
> I just checked this,
> and includes are resolved *relative* to your source file, so, for example,
> if you have myhome.ftl:
>
> /hst:hst/hst:configurations/democommon/hst:templates/myhome.ftl
>
> with following include file
> <#include "myinclude.ftl">
>
> include will be resolved to:
> /hst:hst/hst:configurations/democommon/hst:templates/myinclude.ftl

Nice!

do you know if relative includes also work? For example ../../common/foo.ftl

that doesn't work, but this does:

<#include "../../common/hst:templates/myinclude.ftl">

 

cheers

marijan

[Ard Schrijvers]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:41 PM, marijan milicevic

<m.mil...@onehippo.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Ard Schrijvers <a.schr...@onehippo.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:27 PM, marijan milicevic
>> <m.mil...@onehippo.com> wrote:
>> > I just checked this,
>> > and includes are resolved *relative* to your source file, so, for
>> > example,
>> > if you have myhome.ftl:
>> >
>> > /hst:hst/hst:configurations/democommon/hst:templates/myhome.ftl
>> >
>> > with following include file
>> > <#include "myinclude.ftl">
>> >
>> > include will be resolved to:
>> > /hst:hst/hst:configurations/democommon/hst:templates/myinclude.ftl
>>
>> Nice!
>>
>> do you know if relative includes also work? For example
>> ../../common/foo.ftl
>>
>
> that doesn't work, but this does:
> <#include "../../common/hst:templates/myinclude.ftl">

My point was whether ../ also works, but you just confirmed it does, great!

[Arje Cahn]

Excellent! Thanks, Marijan.

Btw - I thought it would be nice to collect useful Freemarker snippets in our documentation so I added this page: http://www.onehippo.org/7_8/library/concepts/web-application/freemarker-snippets.html

Feel free to join the effort :)

Arje

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