Hi.

Maybe you can check the TemplateTool in the experimental section :

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/velocity/engine/trunk/experimental/templatetool/TemplateTool.java

  Claude

Le mercredi 15 mars 2006 à 11:07 +0100, Holger Willebrandt a écrit :
> Hello everybody,
> 
> i would like to parse a velocity template and collect information about
> all variables that are used within it.
> Therefore, i use the Parser class in the following way:
> 
> //here a reader for the template and a collector for the variables
> //will be supplied
> public static void findVariables(Reader reader, List collector)
>               throws ParseException {
>       VelocityCharStream cstream = new VelocityCharStream(reader, 0, 0);
>       Parser parser = new Parser(cstream);
>       findVariables(parser.process(), collector); //call method below
> }
> 
> //this method will recursively collect the variables and store them
> //in the collector.
> public static void findVariables(Node startNode, List collector) {
>       if (startNode.getClass().equals(ASTReference.class)) {
>               if (!collector.contains(startNode.literal())) {
>                       collector.add(startNode.literal());
>               }
>       }
>       for (int i = 0; i < startNode.jjtGetNumChildren(); i++) {
>               findVariables(startNode.jjtGetChild(i), collector);
>       }
> }
> 
> The code is working as long as the template does not contain a #foreach 
> statement.
> Whenever i try to parse velocity code with a #foreach, i get the following 
> error:
> 
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>          at 
> org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.Parser.Directive(Parser.java:628)
>          at 
> org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.Parser.Statement(Parser.java:319)
>          at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.Parser.process(Parser.java:258)
> 
> Looking into velocity's source code, revealed that the Parser is missing a 
> RuntimeServices instance, resp. a template name.
> 
> It would be nice to have a way of collecting all variables and validating the 
> synatx (a ParseException would indicate a syntax error) at once.
> 
> Any kind of help or advice is welcome.
> 
> Thanks, Holger
> 
> 
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