[stringtemplate-interest] ST4: simple write to file method.

[Udo Borkowski]

Sounds good to me.

Udo

On 30.01.2011, at 16:26, Collin Fagan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I find myself constantly writing the output of templates to files. I was wondering if we could add a method to ST that writes directly to a file?
> 
> Something like this:
> 
> public int write(File outputFile) throws IOException {
>         Writer writer = null;
>         try {
>             writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(outputFile)));
>             int returnValue = write(new AutoIndentWriter(writer));
>             writer.flush();
>             return returnValue;
>         } finally {
>             try {
>                 if (writer != null) {
>                     writer.close();
>                 }
>             } catch (IOException ex) {
>                 // what can you do when a close fails???
>                 // nothing :(
>             }
>         }
>     }
> 
> One might even provide a variant that lets you specify the encoding. 
> 
> Does something like this sounds useful?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Collin
> 
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