I am looking for a good template based run-time code generation library in Scala. I need this for my ERP system to generate artifacts (html, and other code files)
Can any please point me in right direction?
You should take a look at Scalate. It has multiple syntax choices and if you use SSP you can easily create templates for text other than HTML as well.
If your app is web-based, Play has a templating system for generating the output pages.
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I am generating Word files from a Word template (dotx) with the POI framework.
Works nice, but now I am searching for a possibility to use the functionality of adding predefined Building blocks (Quick parts) to a paragraph. Is there a possibility to add - like adding a style - building blocks to paragraphs with POI? thanks in advance!
That functionality does not currently exist. If you would like to develop such a functionality, and contribute it, create a bug and a patch in the POI bugzilla. https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?list_id=158517&product=POI
I suspect this will be non-trivial as the Quick parts are stored in a template in the glossary part (which itself is not yet supported). So you would need to add glossary support as well as support for retrieving building blocks from the template and, and then adding them to the document in the appropriate location.
Trying to learn lift, and i'm looking for a somehow bigger example than HelloWorld (something like spring pet-clinic).
Especially i'm looking at advanced templating in designer friendly manner (as less code in snippets as possible).
I tried to look at example Lift apps https://github.com/lift/examples
But they heavily mix html in their snippets https://github.com/lift/examples/blob/master/nuggets/skittr/src/main/scala/com/skittr/snippet/UserMgt.scala
So can anyone link me to a source of real world app that uses designer-friendly templating?
Hmmm. My hobbie project partially corresponds to what you ask, I think.) https://github.com/vn971/roboCup
It's not all good, I started it when only learning Scala and I see now that it has poor decision choises in some places. But, for example, you can see code-free templates here:
https://github.com/vn971/roboCup/blob/master/src/main/webapp/swiss.html
Ajax bindings can be seen here:
https://github.com/vn971/roboCup/blob/master/src/main/webapp/admin.html
It unfortunately uses html in the code somewhere, too. It's also very little, uses actors (both lift's and akka), has no database at all (only the state of the tournament matters and it's not persisted).
try lift in action book , there is a build of a big web app almost step by step and the project is also on github so you can download it also from there
I am new in Symphony and would like to add a new design. Here I have attached the file which I want to integrate in the user side. How is this possible?!
You'll need to use templates. Make sure you read through that page.
Chapter 2 of the Say Hello to Symphony tutorial deals with templates, and is a nice way of getting to grips with how it works.
Hopefully this will give the basic idea of how to control the HTML output using XSLT. You will then need to create your CSS to style your HTML.
I am new to Zend Framework, but planning to create quite a complex project using it.
I was looking at the view options for Zend Framework. There is one with Zend_View and Zend_Layout and also template engines like Smarty can be integrated with it.
Now I would like to know, do they serve the same purpose? Like I can either use Zend_Layout or Smarty or is it better to use both?
I've worked on two large scale Zend projects. We don't use a separate layout engine, we just use the built in Zend_View.
Layering Smarty on top of Zend wouldn't serve much purpose (imo, would like to see some alternative experiences though)
I have seen lots of benefits of using smarty for nearly 10 years. First of all, smarty restricts template designers to use small set of functions which are related to view only. This will make easier to manage template files and will create a layer of security. Using PHP on view layer allows quick solutions with PHP and can create great mess. Smarty is compiled and there is nearly no performance loss. Syntax is more concise than PHP views. With Smarty 3 "template inheritance" features saved lots of time, which cannot be easily implemented with PHP classes.
I want to start a project using the Scala language. While searching for web frameworks I've found Lift. However, it is not what I was looking for: a web framework that has complete separation of HTML and code. Lift does have some nice features (and a learning curve) but we need to have complete separation of HTML and code. I was hoping to find something like Wicket, Tapestry or Barracuda for the Scala language.
Although it is nice to be able to reuse html templates, it is more important to us to have the HTML templates work as a "static application" mockup. In Tapestry we can just put links in the static templates and use that to have static navigation and a sort of prototype of the application.
So, do you know of any other web framework that is easy to work with the Scala language?
Thanks,
Luis
Here it is I can understand why you might want it pure Scala, but you haven't stated that's necessary, and with the techniques defined within the blog post, and there is another blog which also helps, you should be able to get it close enough to what you desire.
Tapestry 5 has many similarities with Wicket and works very well with Scala. I haven't tried it myself, but Francois Armand has being doing it for some time and he's writing about in in his blog.
Try Context. It is a component based framework written in Java but I have used it with Scala without much difficulties.
Context uses XSL as templating language which forces a sharp separation between logical presentation (DOM-tree) and actual presentation (HTML/CSS/JS).
You can even, with little effort, create prototypes and mocked views by faking the DOM-tree and trying invidual components in different combinations.