Hi all, I'm using Wicket for some frontend of some web app and pretty much like it because it allows me to clearly separate skins, language files, templates and to not mix too much view and business logic. My current requirements are to send mails in some web service backend and I want to use some template engine to generate those, because I need to support multiple languages, might need to create somewhat complex content like tables, headlines and stuff. Not only using HTML, but using plain text as well.
I've already searched around that topic focussing on Wicket and found some explanations that this in fact is doable, but those references are pretty old already. The following are some examples: http://wicket-praxis.de/blog/2009/12/01/sending-html-email-from-wicket-app/ https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WICKET/Use+wicket+as+template+engine Are there any newer docs available covering that topic I have missed? What I'm especially interested in is how to avoid the HTTP-stuff, what the entry points are if I want to render to some string only and what the best approach is to provide necessary data like different language settings, as the corresponding HTTP-headers are missing. Another focus is on generating plain text. I know Wicket is based on HTML/XML-templates, but components can be rendered "body only" already as well. I had something in mind like reusing the templates for HTML-mails by not rendering them entirely including nodes, but only node content itself specially. Something like "<h1>...</h1>" would simply be rendered as some line of text with an empty line afterwards. Same for e.g. "p", while "pre" might simply be indented, "cite" might get a leadin ">" per line etc. So in the best case, I would maintain one set of templates mostly and two different rendering approaches to switch between. Any hints on how I need to implement those different rendering approaches for the same components? So that I don't need to deal with that for each and every component, but some visitor-rendering-pattern or such. Does anyone already have experience with such an approach and additonal advises? Is it a totally bad idea for some reason? Thanks for your input! Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Thorsten Schöning -- Thorsten Schöning E-Mail: thorsten.schoen...@am-soft.de AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/ Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55 Fax...............05151- 9468- 88 Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04 AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
