[stringtemplate-interest] Unit test framework for StringTemplate

[Terence Parr]

I have been thinking for quite a while about adding *, +, and ? to  
the definition of template arguments so that you know whether you  
should get zero more, one or more, or zero or one values in the  
attribute.  That way ST can check the cardinality and existence  
automatically for you.

Ter
On Feb 8, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Jose San Leandro wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm making heavy use of StringTemplate in several projects, using a  
> non-TDD
> developing methodology: change template, check template filling  
> logic, build
> project, execute project, check template output.
>
> It should be much better if I could, from a template
> 1) Generate a "TemplateFiller" interface, with all the getters that  
> the
> template is expecting.
> 2) Generate a junit test that uses a "<TemplateFiller>UnitTestImpl"  
> instance
> (which is the test itself) and compares the output of the template  
> with the
> contents of a provided file.
>
> Basically, I need a StringTemplate parser. I guess StringTemplate  
> itself
> defines an ANTLR-based one I could use.
>
> Do you think it would be possible to use it to extract all input  
> parameters
> from a template? It would have to be recursive itself, and probably  
> indicate
> at the end that the template input is an object graph, so I guess  
> it will have
> to traverse the AST for a template.
>
> I think a unit test framework for StringTemplate is highly desirable.
>
> What do you think?
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