| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 2003 The Visigoth Software Society. All rights |
| * reserved. |
| * |
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| * "This product includes software developed by the |
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| * Alternately, this acknowledgement may appear in the software itself, |
| * if and wherever such third-party acknowledgements normally appear. |
| * |
| * 4. Neither the name "FreeMarker", "Visigoth", nor any of the names of the |
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| */ |
| |
| package freemarker.template; |
| |
| import java.util.List; |
| |
| import freemarker.core.Environment; |
| import freemarker.template.utility.DeepUnwrap; |
| |
| /** |
| * "extended method" template language data type: Objects that act like functions. Their main application is calling |
| * Java methods via {@link freemarker.ext.beans.BeansWrapper}, but you can implement this interface to create |
| * top-level functions too. They are "extended" compared to the deprecated {@link TemplateMethodModel}, which could only |
| * accept string parameters. |
| * |
| * <p>In templates they are used like {@code myMethod(1, "foo")} or {@code myJavaObject.myJavaMethod(1, "foo")}. |
| * |
| * @author Attila Szegedi, szegedia at users dot sourceforge dot net |
| */ |
| public interface TemplateMethodModelEx extends TemplateMethodModel { |
| |
| /** |
| * Executes the method call. |
| * |
| * @param arguments a {@link List} of {@link TemplateModel}-s, |
| * containing the arguments passed to the method. If the implementation absolutely wants |
| * to operate on POJOs, it can use the static utility methods in the {@link DeepUnwrap} |
| * class to easily obtain them. However, unwrapping is not always possible (or not perfectly), and isn't always |
| * efficient, so it's recommended to use the original {@link TemplateModel} value as much as possible. |
| * |
| * @return the return value of the method, or {@code null}. If the returned value |
| * does not implement {@link TemplateModel}, it will be automatically |
| * wrapped using the {@link Environment#getObjectWrapper() environment's |
| * object wrapper}. |
| */ |
| public Object exec(List arguments) throws TemplateModelException; |
| |
| } |