| package freemarker.template; |
| |
| import java.io.IOException; |
| import java.util.Map; |
| |
| import freemarker.core.Environment; |
| import freemarker.template.utility.DeepUnwrap; |
| |
| /** |
| * "directive" template language data type: used as user-defined directives |
| * (much like macros) in templates. They can do arbitrary actions, write arbitrary |
| * text to the template output, and trigger rendering of their nested content for |
| * any number of times. |
| * |
| * <p>They are used in templates like {@code <@myDirective foo=1 bar="wombat">...</@myDirective>} (or as |
| * {@code <@myDirective foo=1 bar="wombat" />} - the nested content is optional). |
| * |
| * @since 2.3.11 |
| * @author Attila Szegedi |
| */ |
| public interface TemplateDirectiveModel extends TemplateModel |
| { |
| /** |
| * Executes this user-defined directive; called by FreeMarker when the user-defined |
| * directive is called in the template. |
| * |
| * @param env the current processing environment. Note that you can access |
| * the output {@link java.io.Writer Writer} by {@link Environment#getOut()}. |
| * @param params the parameters (if any) passed to the directive as a |
| * map of key/value pairs where the keys are {@link String}-s and the |
| * values are {@link TemplateModel} instances. This is never |
| * <code>null</code>. If you need to convert the template models to POJOs, |
| * you can use the utility methods in the {@link DeepUnwrap} class. |
| * @param loopVars an array that corresponds to the "loop variables", in |
| * the order as they appear in the directive call. ("Loop variables" are out-parameters |
| * that are available to the nested body of the directive; see in the Manual.) |
| * You set the loop variables by writing this array. The length of the array gives the |
| * number of loop-variables that the caller has specified. |
| * Never <code>null</code>, but can be a zero-length array. |
| * @param body an object that can be used to render the nested content (body) of |
| * the directive call. If the directive call has no nested content (i.e., it's like |
| * [@myDirective /] or [@myDirective][/@myDirective]), then this will be |
| * <code>null</code>. |
| * |
| * @throws TemplateException |
| * @throws IOException |
| */ |
| public void execute(Environment env, Map params, TemplateModel[] loopVars, |
| TemplateDirectiveBody body) throws TemplateException, IOException; |
| } |