[stringtemplate-interest] basic question to template group

[Dieter Frej]

Hi,

what I wanted to do was to put all templates (all in all these are around 5 templates) in one physical file and use this file to generate my output. Following the great number of example on the Internet, I figured that I need a template group to realize my requirement

StringTemplateGroup stGroup = new StringTemplateGroup("mygroup", "C:\\Users\\xyz\\workspace");
StringTemplate st = stGroup.getInstanceOf("junit");
st.setAttribute("tests", ts); 
System.out.println(st.toString());

I created the junit.st file and placed in the directory specified in the constructor of the StringTemplateGroup. In my junit.st I want to call another "template method"

junitclass(testheet) ::= <<

public class $tests.name$ {
	
	$m23ethod(rows=tests.rows)$
	
}
>>

Putting also

m23ethod(rows) ::= <<
	public void test() {
$rows:{ u |
	$u.inputColumns; separator=", "$
}$
>>

in junit.st does not working. I get the following exception

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can't find template m23ethod.st; context is [junit]; group hierarchy is [mygroup]

Maybe I do not fully get template groups, but why am I required to create a separate template for each method I am calling? Or am I doing something wrong? (or totally missing the point? also possible ;-)

And: what does the "mygroup" (in the constructor of the template group) tell me? What is it used for?

Thanks in advance

- Didi


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