Saturday, March 17, 2018, 7:07:17 PM, Randika Navagamuwa wrote: > Hi Dianel and Angelo, > > Thanks for the information. Yes, Eclipse Che uses LSP4J and I'm interested > in that, but I'm more interested in supporting frameworks and IDE-s. I've > gone through the provided link regarding FM3 but still, there are lot > things which I don't understand properly.
Feel free to ask if you are stuck. > You have mentioned that Woonsan Ko has already implemented a lot of > Spring integration. I would love to take a look at his code so we > can figure out what should/can be improved. It's the freemarker-spring module in the FreeMarker 3 branch. > At the moment, I haven't decided on what I want to do in this project. > Still, I'm trying to understand how can I be a help to FM, so I'm open to > any suggestion. > > I've gone through the issue[1] created by Angelo and I would love to know > the opinion of others as well. My personal preference is to go with the > first solution which is to "Create a custom parser". > > [1] https://github.com/angelozerr/freemarker-languageserver/issues/1 > > Regards, > > > *Randika Navagamuwa,* > > *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> > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:00 PM, Angelo zerr <angelo.z...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > >> > >> -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
