luigi-template

Luigi Template

Overview

Simple multi-language string templating library inspired by Unix pipes.

Features:

Installation (Java)

To generate a stand-alone JAR file, do the following:

mvn package

The generated JAR file will be available in the target/ directory.

Installation (JavaScript)

Minify luigi-template.js using your minifier of choice, and drop it into your source tree. I like jsmin, personally:

jsmin < luigi-template.js > luigi-template-0.5.0.min.js

Note: If you are upgrading from a pre-0.5.0 version of Luigi Template, be sure to include luigi-compat.js as well. See the Changes in 0.5.0 section below for details.

Installation (PHP)

Using Composer

# in your project root
composer require pablotron/luigi-template:~0.5

Or add it to the composer.json for your project, like so:

"require": {
  "pablotron/luigi-template": "~0.5"
},

Manual Installation

The source file for Luigi Template is entirely self-contained, which means you can embed it directly in your project without using Composer by doing the following:

# copy file to your project
cp php/src/Template.php path/to/your/project/

# then, somewhere in your project...
require_once 'path/to/Template.php';

Installation (Ruby)

Install via RubyGems:

# install luigi-template via ruby gems
gem install -r luigi-template

Usage (JavaScript)

A minimal template:

// create template
var t = new Luigi.Template('hello %{name}');

// run template, print result to console
console.log(t.run({
  name: 'Paul',
}));

// prints "hello Paul"

If you have a template that you only need to run one time, you can use the Luigi.run() singleton to run it, like this:

// create and run template in one shot
var r = Luigi.run('hello %{name}', {
  name: 'Paul',
});

// print result to console
console.log(r);

// prints "hello Paul"

Templates parameters can be modified by filters. Filters are applied to a parameter value by appending a | (pipe) character, followed by the filter name.

Here is the template from above, with the name value HTML-escaped using a built-in filter:

// create template that prints hello and the HTML-escaped name
var t = new Luigi.Template('hello %{name | h}');

// run template, print result to console
console.log(t.run({
  name: '<Paul>',
}));

// prints "hello &lt;Paul&gt;"

The built-in templates are:

You can create your own custom filters, too.

The easiest way to create your own custom filter is to add it to the set of global filters (Luigi.FILTERS), like so:

// add global template filter
Luigi.FILTERS.barify = function(s) {
  return 'bar-' + s + '-bar';
};

// create template that uses custom global filter
var t = new Luigi.Template('hello %{name | barify | h}');

// run template, print result to console
console.log(t.run({
  name: '<Paul>',
}));

// prints "hello bar-&lt;Paul&gt;-bar"

You can also create a custom filter and limit it to a particular template by passing a custom filter hash as the second parameter to the Luigi.Template constructor, like this:

// create template with custom template-specific filter
var t = new Luigi.Template('hello %{name | barify | h}', {
  barify: function(s) {
    return 'bar-' + s + '-bar';
  },
});

// run template, print result to console
console.log(t.run({
  name: '<Paul>',
}));

// prints "hello bar-&lt;Paul&gt;-bar"

You can pass arguments to your custom filters. Here’s an example:

// create template with custom template-specific filter named
// "wrap", which wraps the value in the given filter parameters
var t = new Luigi.Template('hello %{name | wrap head tail | h}', {
  wrap: function(s, args) {
    if (args.length == 2) {
      return [args[0], s, args[1]].join('-';
    } else if (args.length == 1) {
      return [args[0], s, args[0]].join('-');
    } else {
      return s;
    }
  },
});

// run template, print result to console
console.log(t.run({
  name: '<Paul>',
}));

// prints "hello head-&lt;Paul&gt;-tail"

If you have a lot of separate templates, or a few large templates, then it’s a good idea to use a template cache.

A template cache will create templates as they are needed (also known as “lazy initialization”), so the script loads quickly. A template cache also caches instantiated (that is, created) templates for future use, so that running a template from the cache is fast too.

Here’s how you create a template cache:

// create template cache with a single template
var cache = Luigi.cache({
  hello: 'hello %{name | uc | h}'
});

// run template, print result to console
console.log(cache.run('hello', {
  name: '<Paul>',
}));

// prints "hello &lt;PAUL%gt;"

Template caches use their own set of custom filters by passing a custom filter hash when creating a template cache:

// create template cache with a custom filter named "reverse"
var cache = Luigi.cache({
  hello: 'hello %{name | uc | reverse | h}'
}, {
  reverse: function(s) {
    var cs = (s || '').split('');
    cs.reverse();
    return cs.join('');
  },
});

// run template, print result to console
console.log(cache.run('hello', {
  name: '<Paul>',
}));

// prints "hello %gt;LUAP&lt;"

A template cache is also a convenient way to group all of the templates in a script together:

// add global filter named "reverse"
Luigi.FILTERS.reverse = function(s) {
  var cs = (s || '').split('');
  cs.reverse();
  return cs.join('');
};

// create template cache
var TEMPLATES = Luigi.cache({
  upper:    'hello %{name | uc | h}',
  reverse:  'hello %{name | reverse | h}',
});

// run the upper and reverse templates above and populate
// the elements #upper and #reverse with their respective
// result
['upper', 'reverse'].forEach(function(id) {
  getElementByid(id).innerHTML = TEMPLATES.run(id, {
    name: '<Paul>',
  });
});

Documentation

Usage documentation is available in the Usage section above, and API documentation is available online at the following URL:

https://pablotron.github.io/luigi-template/

See the following sections to generate language-specific API documentation.

Documentation (Java)

The Java implementation of Luigi Template uses the maven-javadoc-plugin to generate API documentation.

To generate API documentation in java/target/apidocs/:

cd java/
mvn javadoc:javadoc

To generate API documentation as a jar file:

cd java/
mvn javadoc:jar

See this page for additional options.

Documentation (JavaScript)

You can generate the JavaScript API documentation using jsdoc.

Documentation (Ruby)

You can generate the Ruby API documentation in the ruby/docs/ directory via RDoc, like so:

# generate API documentation in ruby/docs/ directory
cd ruby/
rake docs

Tests (Java)

To run the Java test suite, do the following:

cd java/
mvn test

Tests (JavaScript)

This js/test/ directory contains the test suite for the JavaScript implementation of Luigi Template, written in Mocha and Chai.

To run the test suite, load the js/test/test.html page in a browser.

Tests (PHP)

You can run the PHP test suite and static analyzer by doing the following:

# run php unit tests and static analyzer
composer test

To run only the unit tests (PHPUnit):

# run the php unit tests
composer test-unit

To run only the static analyzer (Phan):

# run the php static analyzer
composer test-static

Run the unit tests and generate JUnit-compatible output:

# run all unit tests and export the results as XML
composer test-xml

Tests (Ruby)

You can run the minitest test suite via Rake, like so:

# run the test suite
cd ruby/
rake test

To generate a JUnit-compatible XML report, install the minitest-junit gem and then do the following:

# run the test suite and generate a junit-compatible report.xml
cd ruby/
rake test TESTOPTS=--junit

Changes in 0.5.0 (JavaScript)

Version 0.5.0 of Luigi Template changes the namespace from LuigiTemplate to Luigi, which has the following effects:

If you have an existing system that you cannot make changes to, you can include luigi-compat.js as a compatibility shim. Tests for the compatibility shim are available in js/test/compat/.

Note: The compatibility shim will disappear in a future release.

Author

Paul Duncan (pabs@pablotron.org)
https://pablotron.org/

License

Copyright 2014-2018 Paul Duncan (pabs@pablotron.org)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.