I'm aware of this need, but there was no work on it yet.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 1:04 PM Geoffrey De Smet
<ge0ffrey.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's great to see a Freemarker release
> and talk about supporting LocalDate (FREEMARKER-35) some day.
>
>
> Is there been any work towards *layout inheritance*?
>
>
> For example, for JBake, presume we have a *base.ftl* like this:
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <script>... Google Analytics id=${analyticsId}</script>
> </head>
> <body>
> <#include "shared/menu.ftl"/>
> <#nested/>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> and then 2 ftl files that extend that layout:
> 1) *about-us**.ftl* - which outputs about-us.html
>
> <#layout "base.ftl">
> <h1>About us</h1>
> ...
> </#layout>
>
> 2) *event-list.ftl* - which outputs event-list.html
>
> <#layout "base.ftl">
> <h1>Event list</h1>
> <#list ...>...</#list>
> </#layout>
>
>
> Passing parameters to the layout would be nice too.
> For example the page title from about-us.ftl and event-list.ftl to base.ftl.
>
> Here's a dirty hack that does all this, using macros and tricks, but
> it's extremely brittle:
> - base:
> https://github.com/kiegroup/optaplanner-website/blob/main/optaplanner-website-root/templates/base.ftl#L1
> - normalBase extends base:
> https://github.com/kiegroup/optaplanner-website/blob/main/optaplanner-website-root/templates/normalBase.ftl#L6
> - team extends normalBase:
> https://github.com/kiegroup/optaplanner-website/blob/main/optaplanner-website-root/templates/_content_community_team.ftl
>
> --
>
> With kind regards,
> Geoffrey De Smet
--
Best regards,
Daniel Dekany
