[stringtemplate-interest] stringtemplate-interest Digest, Vol 77, Issue 4

[Rafael Chaves]

And by Ted I meant Terence... sorry.

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Rafael Chaves <rafael at alphasimple.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Ted, but I was aiming for something accessible to template
> authors (without having to resort to writing code).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rafael
>
>> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 12:32:52 -0700
>> From: Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [stringtemplate-interest] template testing
>> To: stringtemplate-interest Template
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>> Hi.I do this all the time... drumroll please... using array of strings ;)
>>
>> String[] pairs = {
>>        "input",                "output",
>>        "input2",               "output2",
>> ...
>> };
>>
>> then I loop around it :)
>>
>> Ter
>>
>> On Aug 1, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Rafael Chaves wrote:
>>
>>> We adopted StringTemplate in a MDD tool we are developing where users
>>> can customize code generation by editing their templates. I really
>>> miss an easy way to test the templates. Is there anything out there
>>> for this? (If not, we will be rolling our own)
>>>
>>> Basically, what I am thinking of is to conventionally use two
>>> templates to represent a test case: one defines the expected output,
>>> and another defines the actual output (by applying the template to be
>>> tested to some parameters). The test runner basically renders each
>>> pair of templates and compares the outputs - if they match, it is a
>>> pass, if they don't, it is a failure (maybe if only spaces differ,
>>> make it a warning).
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen anything like that?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Rafael
>>> http://alphasimple.com
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