erlydtl

ErlyDTL
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ErlyDTL implements most but not all of the Django Template Language.

Project homepage: http://code.google.com/p/erlydtl/


Compilation
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To compile ErlyDTL, type "make" in this directory.


Template compilation
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Four ways:

erlydtl:compile("/path/to/template.dtl", my_module_name)

erlydtl:compile("/path/to/template.dtl", my_module_name, Options)

erlydtl:compile(<<"{{ foo }}">>, my_module_name)

erlydtl:compile(<<"{{ foo }}">>, my_module_name, Options)

Options is a proplist possibly containing:

out_dir - Directory to store generated .beam files. If not specified, no
.beam files will be created.

doc_root - Included template paths will be relative to this directory;
defaults to the compiled template's directory.

custom_tags_dir - Directory of DTL files (no extension) includable as tags.
E.g. if $custom_tags_dir/foo contains "{{ bar }}", then
"{{ foo bar=100 }}" will evaluate to "100". Get it?

vars - Variables (and their values) to evaluate at compile-time rather than
render-time.

reader - {module, function} tuple that takes a path to a template and returns
a binary with the file contents. Defaults to {file, read_file}. Useful
for reading templates from a network resource.

compiler_options - Proplist passed directly to compiler:forms/2

force_recompile - Recompile the module even if the source's checksum has not
changed. Useful for debugging.


Usage (of a compiled template)
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my_compiled_template:render(Variables) -> {ok, IOList} | {error, Err}

Variables is a proplist, dict, gb_tree, or a parameterized module
(whose method names correspond to variable names). The variable
values can be atoms, strings, binaries, or (nested) variables.

IOList is the rendered template.

my_compiled_template:source() -> {FileName, CheckSum}

Name and checksum of the original template file.

my_compiled_template:dependencies() -> [{FileName, CheckSum}]

List of names/checksums of templates included by the original template
file. Useful for frameworks that recompile a template only when the
template's dependencies change.


Tests
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From a Unix shell, run:

make test

Note that the tests will create some output in examples/rendered_output.