com.metamatrix.vdb.materialization.template
Class TemplateExpander

java.lang.Object
  com.metamatrix.vdb.materialization.template.TemplateExpander

public class TemplateExpander
extends java.lang.Object

Uses a set of data values and templates to generate an expanded template. For example, this is used to generate a script file from a template. Hides all of the 3rd party classes used in the template processing.

Since:

4.2

Constructor Summary

TemplateExpander(TemplateData data, DatabaseDialect database)

Method Summary

ExpandedTemplate	expand(java.lang.String nameTemplate, java.io.Reader[] templateReaders, java.lang.String templateName) Produce the name and contents of an expanded template.
java.lang.String	expandText(java.lang.String templateText)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TemplateExpander

public TemplateExpander(TemplateData data,
                        DatabaseDialect database)

Method Detail

expand

public ExpandedTemplate expand(java.lang.String nameTemplate,
                               java.io.Reader[] templateReaders,
                               java.lang.String templateName)

Produce the name and contents of an expanded template.

Parameters:

nameTemplate - is a template for the name of the expanded template.

templateReaders - are the Reader objects that provide the contents of the templates to expand to produce the results.

templateName - is the name of the main template to invoke from all of the templates provided by the templateReaders.

Returns:

the ExpandedTemplate.

Since:

4.2

expandText

public java.lang.String expandText(java.lang.String templateText)