Hi Randika, If you are interested to work on the Freemarker Language Server https://github.com/angelozerr/freemarker-languageserver, it should be really fantastic.
Today I have just managed to support validation (publishDiagnostics), but for advanced features like completion, outline, etc we must have the capability to have a Freemarker AST even if the content of ftl is not valid. I have created an issue for that https://github.com/angelozerr/freemarker-languageserver/issues/1 Don't hesitate to add your comment. Thanks! Hope you could be interested. Regard's Angelo 2018-03-17 16:57 GMT+01:00 Daniel Dekany <ddek...@apache.org>: > Saturday, March 17, 2018, 1:34:11 PM, Randika Navagamuwa wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm from Sri Lanka and currently, I'm working as a Senior > Software > > Engineer at AdroitLogic Lanka (Pvt) Ltd [1]. During my undergraduate > > period, I've contributed to some open source projects including Eclipse > Che > > [2]. > > Speaking of Eclipse... we had a bit of a problem with the old Eclipse > editor plugin (at JBoss Tools), which it sparked this new one using > LSP4J (also used by Che AFAIK; not sure how syntax highlighting parts > works there): https://github.com/angelozerr/lsp4e-freemarker > > If you are interested in that, let me know. > > > For some time I couldn't actively participate in any open source > > projects and I thought of getting back to it. > > > > After going through some Apache projects I found Free Marker > > really interesting. I'm interested in taking part in "*FreeMarker Spring > > MVC integration. > > > > Please let me know how to contribute to this. > > So first of all, glad to hear that you are interested. We need that a > lot, especially when it comes to supporting frameworks and IDE-s. > > Now, there are two main development branches: > > - FreeMarker 2: This is the one that's actually used in production, > for 15 years or so. Be prepared for remnants of 2000-s cowboy > coding <-;, and complications and restrictions for keeping backward > compatibility. > > The Spring support was made very long ago by someone who, I don't > remember ever talked to the FM developers (I was already around in > that times). My brief interactions with it has shown that it's not > very good, and it's quite abandoned. Now, the main problem is that > it's at Spring, not here. So I'm not sure if writing patches to them > is the better, or starting over here. Though I'm certain that the > last is much more fun, and you have more freedom to figure out the > best approach to bring FM2 features and Spring together. (OTOH that > will lead to FM support being removed from Spring, which is quite a > loss in visibility... but we go for what's best technically.) > > If you need new FM features during that (and certainly you will, if > you are creative about it), I can do that if you find the FM2 > internals scary (which would be understandable). > > - FreeMarker 3: You can read about it here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FREEMARKER/FreeMarker+3 > So it's much more rewarding to work with, except that nobody uses it > yet... Furthermore, Woonsan Ko (a PPMC member here) has implemented > a lot of the Spring integration already, as you will find. I know > there are parts missing, even trickier parts (like i10n messages > that are outputFormat aware). Not sure if he wants them for himself > (after all, those are the fun parts), or if he needs help elsewhere. > Woonsan? > > Also, generating e-mail in Spring seems to become more and more > important compared to generating web pages. Just in case you are > interested in polishing that application as well. But really, find the > a part that you think you will enjoy. > > > Someone who know both well should keep an eye on this, > > improving it where necessary.*" which I found here [3] under "*Improve > > framework integration*". > > > > [1] https://www.adroitlogic.com/ > > [2] https://www.eclipse.org/che/ > > [3] https://freemarker.apache.org/contribute.html > > > > Regards, > > > > > > *Randika Navagamuwa,* > > > > *Senior Software Engineer,* > > *AdroitLogic Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.* > > *www.rnavagamuwa.com <http://www.rnavagamuwa.com>* > > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rnavagamuwa/> [image: > > https://www.facebook.com/rnavagamuwa] > > <https://www.facebook.com/rnavagamuwa> > > <https://twitter.com/rnavagamuwa> [image: > > https://plus.google.com/+RandikaNavagamuwa/] > > <https://plus.google.com/+RandikaNavagamuwa/> > > <http://github.com/rnavagamuwa> > > -- > Thanks, > Daniel Dekany > >
