[stringtemplate-interest] [ST4 Beta-4] Retrieving version information

[Oliver Zeigermann]

By the way, wouldn't it be a good idea to either include the necessary
jars into the source distribution or let ant download them if not
present as an alterantive?

2011/2/12 Oliver Zeigermann <oliver.zeigermann at gmail.com>:
> Using ant that is fairly easy. I attached a patch for the ant build
> file that replaces every @version@ inside the source with the version
> information from build.properties (no idea if this is the best
> solution, though).
>
> E.g. adding
>
>    public final static String VERSION = "@version@";
>
> to ST.java
>
> would result to
>
>    public final static String VERSION = "4.0b4";
>
> in the compiled classes.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> - Oliver
>
> 2011/2/11 Udo Borkowski <ub at abego-software.de>:
>> Hi Ter,
>>
>> I agree this will only work if the version information (text and/or boolean flag) is really in sync with the version control system (i.e. requires automated solution). Not sure how hard this is to implement.
>>
>> Regarding the test for the version: I haven't thought of this yet, but it would definitely be useful.
>>
>> Udo
>>
>> On 11.02.2011, at 00:55, Terence Parr wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Udo,
>>>
>>> Seems like the more common use case would be to test the version number and do something different to  avoidable or use a feature only if a particular version is available. but we can't test values in the template so it would have to be a Boolean set  for the various versions; might be hard to add one for every random version we make.
>>>
>>> <if(v4_0b1)>...<endif>
>>>
>>> Hmm... also I would have to figure out how to make ANT alter my software automatically to include the right version string; it would have to know about perforce version control and so on. setting this by hand would be a problem as it would get out of sync.
>>>
>>> Ter
>>> On Feb 7, 2011, at 6:25 AM, Udo Borkowski wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> what about providing "version information" to be used in a template?
>>>>
>>>> I got this idea because I was using an older version of the engine (Beta3 instead of Beta4) without noticing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> One could then use this information e.g. to include a text like
>>>>
>>>>      "(Rendered with StringTemplate 4.0 Beta-4)"
>>>>
>>>> into generated web pages etc.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> One way to achieve this without adding "build-in" attributes etc. could be extending the class ST.
>>>>
>>>> E.g. add the following method to the class ST:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      public String getVersionText() {
>>>>              return "StringTemplate 4.0 Beta-4";
>>>>      }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Then one could use
>>>>
>>>>              (Rendered with <{ }.versionText>)
>>>>
>>>> in a template to render
>>>>
>>>>              (Rendered with StringTemplate 4.0 Beta-4)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Udo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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