[stringtemplate-interest] Interactive StringTemplate sandbox

[Nicholas Dunn]

I fixed the newline issue and made the code boxes smaller height by default.
 I also added group support, so as better to illustrate how different
templates can be applied.  The new version is live now:

http://stringtemplate.appspot.com/


I'm envisioning some sort of tabbed interface or radio buttons to choose
between some sample string template group / JSON pairs which illustrate many
of the features of StringTemplate.  Right now I have the one example, that
of building an HTML table dynamically, which illustrates anonymous
templates, list literal, simple variable substitution, and conditional
output.



On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Michael Bedward
<michael.bedward at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Nicholas,
>
> That's a great idea. Apart from fixing the newline problem if
> possible, my only suggestion would be to have the layout so that both
> the template code and the JSON layout are visible on an average
> resolution screen (e.g. 800 px height) without having to scroll up and
> down.
>
> Michael
>
> On 1 May 2011 14:08, Nicholas Dunn <i82much at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am a huge fan of StringTemplate and evangelize for it all I can.  To
> that
> > end, I wrote up a small Google App Engine web app which allows new users
> to
> > experiment with StringTemplate without having to download jars, set up
> > classpaths, etc. etc.  It builds upon John Snyder's StringTemplate
> > Standalone Tool
> > (
> http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ST/STST+-+StringTemplate+Standalone+Tool
> ),
> > specifically with respect to the use of JSON as the data model powering
> the
> > templates.
> > The webapp can be found at http://stringtemplate.appspot.com/ , and the
> > public github repository can be found
> > at https://github.com/I82Much/StringTemplate-Sandbox .  This is my first
> > webapp so it's very much a beta product at the minute.  I'm using
> > StringTemplate 3.2.1 jar as that's the version I've got the most
> experience
> > with; switching it to 4 should not be too much work if that's more
> useful.
> > What do people think, is this a worthwhile idea?  If so, I'd love to hear
> > feedback and things to improve (especially in the design area).
> > Known bugs:
> > Whitespace isn't being output correctly to the "rendered template" side.
>  It
> > works fine locally but when I deploy it to app engine, new lines seem to
> get
> > eaten up.
> > Limitations/things to fix in future work:
> > No support for StringTemplate group/multiple templates.
> > No syntax highlighting
> >
> >
> > --
> > Nicholas Dunn
> >
> >
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>



-- 
Nicholas Dunn
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