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StringTemplate 3.0 Release Notes

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3.0 should be a drop-in replacement for those using ST for websites and code generation with a few minor potential incompatibilities as noted below. Also see the change list. The biggest issue is that now angle brackets are the default delimiter for StringTemplate groups.

Enhancements

• Added interfaces. See unit tests and http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt/papers/ST.pdf.

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  group Java implements ANTLRCoreTarget; rule(...) ::= "..." ...

  You can say "optional template(args);" also. Uses group loader to find interfaces.

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• Added STG.getInstanceOf(name,attributes)

Backward incompatibilities

The following changes were worth making despite causing some backward compatibilities for some users.

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This made the ASTExpr.write separator computation much simpler and allowed me to properly handle the new "null" option.

Bug Fixes

• allow different source of classloader:

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  InputStream is = cl.getResourceAsStream(fileName); if ( is==null ) \{ cl = ErrorManager.class.getClassLoader(); is = cl.getResourceAsStream(fileName); }

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