ErlyDTL compiles Django Template Language to Erlang bytecode.
Supported tags: autoescape, block, blocktrans, comment, cycle, extends, filter, firstof, for, if, ifequal, ifnotequal, include, now, spaceless, ssi, templatetag, trans, widthratio, with
Unsupported tags: csrf_token, ifchanged, regroup, url
Supported filters: add, addslashes, capfirst, center, cut, date, default, default_if_none, dictsort, dictsortreversed, divisibleby, escape, escapejs, filesizeformat, first, fix_ampersands, floatformat, force_escape, format_integer, format_number, get_digit, iriencode, join, last, length, length_is, linebreaks, linebreaksbr, linenumbers, ljust, lower, make_list, phonenumeric, pluralize, pprint, random, random_num, random_range, removetags, rjust, safe, safeseq, slice, slugify, stringformat, striptags, time, timesince, timeuntil, title, truncatewords, truncatewords_html, unordered_list, upper, urlencode, urlize, urlizetrunc, wordcount, wordwrap, yesno
Unsupported filters: none
Project homepage: http://code.google.com/p/erlydtl/
Language reference: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/
To compile ErlyDTL, run
make
in this directory.
Four ways:
erlydtl:compile("/path/to/template.dtl", my_module_name)
erlydtl:compile("/path/to/template.dtl", my_module_name, Options)
erlydtl:compile(<<"<html>{{ foo }}</html>">>, my_module_name)
erlydtl:compile(<<"<html>{{ foo }}</html>">>, my_module_name, Options)
Options is a proplist possibly containing:
-
out_dir- Directory to store generated .beam files. If not specified, no .beam files will be created. -
doc_root- Included template paths will be relative to this directory; defaults to the compiled template's directory. -
custom_tags_dir- Directory of DTL files (no extension) includable as tags. E.g. if $custom_tags_dir/foo contains<b>{{ bar }}</b>, then{% foo bar=100 %}will evaluate to<b>100</b>. Get it? -
custom_tags_modules- A list of modules to be used for handling custom tags. The modules will be searched in order and take precedence overcustom_tags_dir. Each custom tag should correspond to an exported function, e.g.:some_tag(Variables, Context) -> iolist()
The Context is specified at render-time with the custom_tags_context option.
-
vars- Variables (and their values) to evaluate at compile-time rather than render-time. -
reader- {module, function} tuple that takes a path to a template and returns a binary with the file contents. Defaults to{file, read_file}. Useful for reading templates from a network resource. -
compiler_options- Proplist passed directly tocompiler:forms/2 -
force_recompile- Recompile the module even if the source's checksum has not changed. Useful for debugging. -
locale- The locale used for template compile. Requires erlang_gettext. It will ask gettext_server for the string value on the provided locale. For example, adding {locale, "en_US"} will call {key2str, Key, "en_US"} for all string marked as trans ({% trans "StringValue" %}on templates). See README_I18N. -
blocktrans_fun- A two-argument fun to use for translatingblocktransblocks. This will be called once for each pair ofblocktransblock and locale specified inblocktrans_locales. The fun should take the form:Fun(BlockName, Locale) -> <<"ErlyDTL code">> | default
-
blocktrans_locales- A list of locales to be passed toblocktrans_fun. Defaults to []. -
binary_strings- Whether to compile strings as binary terms (rather than lists). Defaults totrue.
Helpers provide additional templating functionality and can be used in
conjunction with the custom_tags_module option above. They can be created
from a directory of templates thusly:
erlydtl:compile_dir("/path/to/dir", my_helper_module_name)
erlydtl:compile_dir("/path/to/dir", my_helper_module_name, Options)
The resulting module will export a function for each template appearing in the specified directory. Options is the same as for compile/3.
Compiling a helper module can be more efficient than using custom_tags_dir
because the helper functions will be compiled only once (rather than once
per template).
my_compiled_template:render(Variables) -> {ok, IOList} | {error, Err}
Variables is a proplist, dict, gb_tree, or a parameterized module (whose method names correspond to variable names). The variable values can be atoms, strings, binaries, or (nested) variables.
IOList is the rendered template.
my_compiled_template:render(Variables, Options) ->
{ok, IOList} | {error, Err}
Same as render/1, but with the following options:
-
translation_fun- A fun/1 that will be used to translate strings appearing inside{% trans %}tags. The simplest TranslationFun would befun(Val) -> Val end -
locale- A string specifying the current locale, for use with theblocktrans_funcompile-time option. -
custom_tags_context- A value that will be passed to custom tags.my_compiled_template:translatable_strings() -> [String]
List of strings appearing in {% trans %} tags that can be overridden
with a dictionary passed to render/2.
my_compiled_template:source() -> {FileName, CheckSum}
Name and checksum of the original template file.
my_compiled_template:dependencies() -> [{FileName, CheckSum}]
List of names/checksums of templates included by the original template file. Useful for frameworks that recompile a template only when the template's dependencies change.
From a Unix shell, run:
make test
Note that the tests will create some output in tests/output.