FreeMarker(FTL) Hello World Tutorial with Example

File: src/helloworld.ftl

FreeMarker Template example: ${message} 

 

=======================

===  County List   ====

=======================

<#list countries as country>

     ${country_index + 1}. ${country}

</#list>

File: src/net/viralpatel/freemarker/FTLHelloWorld.java

package net.viralpatel.freemarker;

 

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileWriter;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;

import java.io.Writer;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.HashMap;

import java.util.List;

import java.util.Map;

 

import freemarker.template.Configuration;

import freemarker.template.Template;

import freemarker.template.TemplateException;

 

public class FTLHelloWorld {

     

     public static void main(String[] args) {

         

         //Freemarker configuration object

         Configuration cfg = new Configuration();

         try {

             //Load template from source folder

             Template template = cfg.getTemplate( "src/main/java/helloworld.ftl" );

             

             // Build the data-model

             Map<String, Object> data = new HashMap<String, Object>();

             data.put( "message" , "Hello World!" );

 

             //List parsing

             List<String> countries = new ArrayList<String>();

             countries.add( "India" );

             countries.add( "United States" );

             countries.add( "Germany" );

             countries.add( "France" );

             

             data.put( "countries" , countries);

 

             

             // Console output

             Writer out = new OutputStreamWriter(System.out);

             template.process(data, out);

             out.flush();

 

             // File output

             Writer file = new FileWriter ( new File( "C:\\FTL_helloworld.txt" ));

             template.process(data, file);

             file.flush();

             file.close();

             

         } catch (IOException e) {

             e.printStackTrace();

         } catch (TemplateException e) {

             e.printStackTrace();

         }

     }

}

程序运行ok！