[TEXEN-2] Provide class to be called from command-line to translate any file with special suffix.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Environment: WindowsXP
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Colbert Philippe
• Created: 26/May/06 19:18
• Updated: 09/Apr/07 12:16

Description

This is a simple but important feature to have. To standadize the use of Velocity, provide a class that can be called from the command-line that will do the translation from *.vm ---> final-file. The class will look for any file that has one of the special suffixes (specified by as parameters) and will translate it.

The name convention for the translation would like this that:
someFileName.velocity ---> someFileName
someFileName.vm ---> someFileName

Example:
myFile.html.velocity ---> myFile.html

The user would specify the list of suffixes as parameter in Java (like String[] suffixes =

{ ".velocity", ".vm" }

.

Sub-Tasks

• Need a standard Velocity class for doing macro preprocessing for various files (XML, HTML, scripts, source files..): Open