org.writersforge.catalan.transform.external
Class VelocityRunner

java.lang.Object
  org.writersforge.catalan.transform.external.VelocityRunner

public class VelocityRunner

extends java.lang.Object

Helper class to abstract calls to the Velocity API out of the VelocityProcessor class. This makes it possible to load the processor class when Velocity is not on the CLASSPATH, without triggering a ClassNotFoundException. VelocityRunner should be the only class in Catalan with any direct references to Velocity.

Author:

jsheets

Constructor Summary

VelocityRunner()

Method Summary

java.lang.String

processTemplate(java.lang.String template, java.util.List nodes) Processes the given Velocity template against the supplied input nodes.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

VelocityRunner

public VelocityRunner()

Method Detail

processTemplate

public java.lang.String processTemplate(java.lang.String template,
                                        java.util.List nodes)

Processes the given Velocity template against the supplied input nodes. The nodes must be a collection of key/value pairs, which the runner will load into a VelocityContext object. The key names should correspond to references in the Velocity template. If the nodes List contains an odd number of nodes, the last node (lacking a corresponding value object) will be ignored.

Parameters:

template - the text of a Velocity template

nodes - alternating key/value pairs for the context

Returns:

the processed results