[stringtemplate-interest] ST output start/stop tags

Tue Jun 13 10:48:24 PDT 2006

Hi,

Per a previous discussion, when trying to answer "which template  
generated that text" it would be nice to have each template spit out  
a start/stop tag (user-defined).  It works great...built it  
yesterday...you get:

<method><type>void</type> foo(<args>...</args>) { <body>...</body> }</ 
method>

or close...

I decided that each group would have

	public void emitTemplateStartDebugString(StringTemplate st,
											 StringTemplateWriter out)
		throws IOException
	{
		out.write("<"+st.getName()+">");
	}

	public void emitTemplateStopDebugString(StringTemplate st,
										    StringTemplateWriter out)
		throws IOException
	{
		out.write("</"+st.getName()+">");
	}

and each group would have a boolean

	public boolean debugTemplateOutput = false;

or sometihng that you could set per group.  For example, errors in  
antlr I don't want wrapped but the codegen i do want wrapped.

Does this make sense?  Only problem I have is that I ask for the file  
extension such as .java or .cpp from the code gen templates and it  
gives t.<fileExt>java</fileExt> when it tries to build a filename,  
but that is my special case.

Any comments on desired functionality?

Ter