Template engines in Hippo cms

[Michael Belonosov]

Is there any way to connect template engines like Thymeleaf to Hippo CMS?

Hippo documentation describes only JSP and FreeMarker, but there are a lot of other engines.
For example with Spring MVC I can use everything - FreeMarker, thymeleaf, Velocity and others.
What for HST?
If I include correct dependencies in my project, will be HST tags preprocessed correctly?

[Olivier Bourgeois]

Hi Michael,

I’ve just played a bit with Thymeleaf so I’m not aware of all the possibilities, but AFAIK you can include JSPs fragment in your Thymeleaf templates: by using Thymeleaf directives or Apache Tiles integration. It seems to me that it would be the easiest way to reuse the HST taglib from your Thymeleaf templates.

Other than that, this will require some servlet/HST configuration but you should be able to integrate Thymeleaf engine in your HST site webapp. You can have a look at the frameworks integrations documentation. This will give you an overview of how things works. But I believe your use case is simpler than what is described in this documentation: you just have to instruct HST not to process your Thymeleaf templates (and for instance let another servlet do it).

HTH,
Olivier.

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[Woonsan Ko]

Do you want to use Thymeleaf or Velocity template for an HST Component
template?
If so, basically it is absolutely possible because HST container simply
dispatches the request to the template physical path (e.g,
/WEB-INF/jsp/test.jsp, /WEB-INF/ftl/test.ftl, /WEB-INF/vm/test.vm, etc.).
So, if you configure a *servlet* for the mapping (e.g, *.vm, *.ftl,
etc.), then the dispatching from HST container to the template *servlet*
will work fine. The templates will be able to read request attributes
(as model) and render those.
By the way, you should add suffixExclusions or prefixExclusions properly
for your template servlet. See [1] for detail.

I'm not sure if Thymeleaf supports a standalone servlet like Freemarker
or Velocity does. If so, you can easily configure it and set the
physical path of an hst template to that. Otherwise, maybe you can
consider a servlet by yourself.

Regards,

Woonsan

[1]
http://www.onehippo.org/library/concepts/web-application/hst-2-container-configuration.html

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[Michael Belonosov]

Hi Olivier, basically I have two part of my site: infosite and service.
I want to run infosite under Hippo CMS, and integrate service with infosite. Service part uses Thymeleaf, so I think if I can use the same rendering in infosite. I have passed two sprints of  Hippo Developer Trail,
all of GoGreen templates are using <@hst**> tags, so in general my question is:

How can I use hst tags in Thymeleaf templates.
As I understood, there are no hst taglibrary for Thymeleaf as for FreeMarker.

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[marijan milicevic]

Hi Michael,

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Michael Belonosov <belon...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Olivier, basically I have two part of my site: infosite and service.
I want to run infosite under Hippo CMS, and integrate service with infosite. Service part uses Thymeleaf, so I think if I can use the same rendering in infosite. I have passed two sprints of  Hippo Developer Trail,
all of GoGreen templates are using <@hst**> tags, so in general my question is:

How can I use hst tags in Thymeleaf templates.
As I understood, there are no hst taglibrary for Thymeleaf as for FreeMarker.

you are correct. As far as I know, there are no plans (yet) to support Thymeleaf..

cheers

marijan

[Olivier Bourgeois]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Michael Belonosov <belon...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Olivier, basically I have two part of my site: infosite and service.
I want to run infosite under Hippo CMS, and integrate service with infosite. Service part uses Thymeleaf, so I think if I can use the same rendering in infosite. I have passed two sprints of  Hippo Developer Trail,
all of GoGreen templates are using <@hst**> tags, so in general my question is:

How can I use hst tags in Thymeleaf templates.
As I understood, there are no hst taglibrary for Thymeleaf as for FreeMarker.

So, like I said, to use HST tags it seems you have to use Apache Tiles to integrate JSPs into your Thymeleaf templates. You should check that with Thymeleaf experts though, there may be better options that I am not aware of.

"Mix JSPs and Thymeleaf templates in the same definition, for better legacy integration / migration."

 

https://github.com/thymeleaf/thymeleaf-extras-tiles2

Regards,

Olivier.

[Jeroen Reijn]

I think this is a very interesting topic. I've been following thymeleaf after the research I did about template engines for Spring based applications [1]. I really like the concept of natural templating  that thymeleaf offers, however it is a bit slower because it's DOM based.

If you come up with a working example I would love to see it. Otherwise I will take a look at it myself as well. Maybe we can combine forces and share some code on github?

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/jreijn/comparing-templateenginesjvm

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[Michael Belonosov]

Your presentation was the first I'd read before start using thymeleaf=)
Unfortunately, I didn't prepare anything for thymeleaf yet.

Its an interesting idea to mix JSPs and Thymeleaf together, but I think it shoudn't be main way.
Thymeleaf is using dialects as its main approach.
For example, there is standart dialect, which includes all common thymeleaf tags, and SpringStandartDialect - for Spring mvc integration.
Spring security dialect realized same way.
So I think that new HST Dialect for thymeleaf will be the best approach.

As for me, after using Thymeleaf Freemarker really terrified me=)

вторник, 31 марта 2015 г., 10:25:35 UTC+3 пользователь j.reijn написал:

[Olivier Bourgeois]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Michael Belonosov <belon...@gmail.com> wrote:

Your presentation was the first I'd read before start using thymeleaf=)
Unfortunately, I didn't prepare anything for thymeleaf yet.

Its an interesting idea to mix JSPs and Thymeleaf together, but I think it shoudn't be main way.
Thymeleaf is using dialects as its main approach.
For example, there is standart dialect, which includes all common thymeleaf tags, and SpringStandartDialect - for Spring mvc integration.
Spring security dialect realized same way.
So I think that new HST Dialect for thymeleaf will be the best approach.

I do agree: that sounds more like the right way to do it, however that seems also to be requiring - much ? - more work. I'll have a look at the Spring MVC integration just for my own enlightenment.

 

As for me, after using Thymeleaf Freemarker really terrified me=)

:-)