Comments on: Determining Template Data Language by a File Extension

By: Data Entry Washington

Data Entry Washington — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:48:43 +0000

Thanks for sharing this useful information, especially about the vital codes & templates.

By: Peter Gromov

Peter Gromov — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:01:02 +0000

Joseph,

That would be great, I agree. A workaround would be to map CSS file extension to Velocity and set CSS as template data language, but then all CSS files would be treated like Velocity’s. The problem is that this is not easy to implement. Surely not in 8.1.x. Probably in IntelliJ IDEA 9, but I’m not sure.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:59:36 +0000

Trying the feature from the “Template Data Languages” I think the behavior should be just the opposite of how it’s done now:
Right now the user can select for a file detected as containing velocity/Freemarker by it’s extension that it should contain e.g. CSS language too (or the other languages from that drop box).
This is however useless for most cases/framework, because the extension is the very problem (and the double extension trick is not accepted in many projects).

Why not simplify for most use cases and allow to select on a CSS file(with a normal CSS extension) to be “Velocity aware” by having in that drop box (velocity and freemarker only ) ?
This is how most frameworks use Velocity - they keep the original extension (e.g. CSS) but the code contains Velocity code too.