[GROOVY-4668] Static imports in SimpleTemplateEngine

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.6
• Component/s: Templating
• Assignee: Guillaume Sauthier
• Reporter: Erik Pragt
• Created: 07/Feb/11 14:53
• Updated: 08/Feb/11 06:59
• Resolved: 08/Feb/11 01:50

Description

I'm trying to use the SimpleTemplateEngine in combination with some static imports to capitalize some words, like this:

import static org.apache.commons.lang.WordUtils.capitalize

import groovy.text.SimpleTemplateEngine

def text = 'Dear "${capitalize(\'erik\')} $lastname",\nSo nice to meet you in <% print city %>.\nSee you in ${month},\n${signed}'

def binding = ["firstname":"Sam", "lastname":"Pullara", "city":"San Francisco", "month":"December", "signed":"Groovy-Dev"]

def engine = new SimpleTemplateEngine()
template = engine.createTemplate(text).make(binding)

def result = 'Dear "Sam Pullara",\nSo nice to meet you in San Francisco.\nSee you in December,\nGroovy-Dev'

assert result == template.toString()

This doesn't work, because it cannot find the capitalize method:

groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: SimpleTemplateScript14.capitalize() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.String) values: [erik]
        at SimpleTemplateScript14.run(SimpleTemplateScript14.groovy:2)
        at groovy.text.SimpleTemplateEngine$SimpleTemplate$1.writeTo(SimpleTemplateEngine.java:164)
        at groovy.text.SimpleTemplateEngine$SimpleTemplate$1.toString(SimpleTemplateEngine.java:176)
        at ConsoleScript15.run(ConsoleScript15:14)

Whenever I use the fully qualified name, it works, but importing brings me no luck, even though it's nicely advertised on the documentation page: http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Templates

For what it's worth, I've tried it with the Groovy which comes with Grails 1.3.2.

Kind regards,

Erik Pragt