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Loading Templates From Files
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The rest of this article discusses StringTemplateGroups, but only covers the case of groups of individual template files. You may also be interested in string template group files (xxx.stg) which provide more functionality for many scenarios. See separate Group Files article. |
To load a template from the disk you must use a StringTemplateGroup that will manage all the templates you load, caching them so you do not waste time talking to the disk for each template fetch request (you can change it to not cache; see below). You may have multiple template groups. Here is a simple example that loads the previous SQL template from a file /tmp/theQuery.st:
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