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FreemarkerResult.java

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package org.apache.struts2.views.freemarker;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.util.Locale;

import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.struts2.ServletActionContext;
import org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.StrutsResultSupport;
import org.apache.struts2.views.util.ResourceUtil;

import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionContext;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionInvocation;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.LocaleProvider;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.inject.Inject;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.ValueStack;

import freemarker.template.Configuration;
import freemarker.template.ObjectWrapper;
import freemarker.template.Template;
import freemarker.template.TemplateException;
import freemarker.template.TemplateModel;
import freemarker.template.TemplateModelException;


/**
 * <!-- START SNIPPET: description -->
 *
 * Renders a view using the Freemarker template engine.
 * <p>
 * The FreemarkarManager class configures the template loaders so that the
 * template location can be either
 * </p>
 *
 * <ul>
 *
 * <li>relative to the web root folder. eg <code>/WEB-INF/views/home.ftl</code>
 * </li>
 *
 * <li>a classpath resuorce. eg <code>com/company/web/views/home.ftl</code></li>
 *
 * </ul>
 *
 * <!-- END SNIPPET: description -->
 *
 * <b>This result type takes the following parameters:</b>
 *
 * <!-- START SNIPPET: params -->
 *
 * <ul>
 *
 * <li><b>location (default)</b> - the location of the template to process.</li>
 *
 * <li><b>parse</b> - true by default. If set to false, the location param will
 * not be parsed for Ognl expressions.</li>
 *
 * <li><b>contentType</b> - defaults to "text/html" unless specified.</li>
 *
 * </ul>
 *
 * <!-- END SNIPPET: params -->
 *
 * <b>Example:</b>
 *
 * <pre>
 * <!-- START SNIPPET: example -->
 *
 * <result name="success" type="freemarker">foo.ftl</result>
 *
 * <!-- END SNIPPET: example -->
 * </pre>
 */
public class FreemarkerResult extends StrutsResultSupport {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = -3778230771704661631L;

    protected ActionInvocation invocation;
    protected Configuration configuration;
    protected ObjectWrapper wrapper;
    protected FreemarkerManager freemarkerManager;
    private Writer writer;

    /*
     * Struts results are constructed for each result execution
     *
     * the current context is availible to subclasses via these protected fields
     */
    protected String location;
    private String pContentType = "text/html";

    public FreemarkerResult() {
        super();
    }

    public FreemarkerResult(String location) {
        super(location);
    }
    
    @Inject
    public void setFreemarkerManager(FreemarkerManager mgr) {
        this.freemarkerManager = mgr;
    }

    public void setContentType(String aContentType) {
        pContentType = aContentType;
    }

    /**
     * allow parameterization of the contentType
     * the default being text/html
     */
    public String getContentType() {
        return pContentType;
    }

    /**
     * Execute this result, using the specified template location.
     * <p/>
     * The template location has already been interoplated for any variable substitutions
     * <p/>
     * this method obtains the freemarker configuration and the object wrapper from the provided hooks.
     * It them implements the template processing workflow by calling the hooks for
     * preTemplateProcess and postTemplateProcess
     */
    public void doExecute(String location, ActionInvocation invocation) throws IOException, TemplateException {
        this.location = location;
        this.invocation = invocation;
        this.configuration = getConfiguration();
        this.wrapper = getObjectWrapper();

        if (!location.startsWith("/")) {
            ActionContext ctx = invocation.getInvocationContext();
            HttpServletRequest req = (HttpServletRequest) ctx.get(ServletActionContext.HTTP_REQUEST);
            String base = ResourceUtil.getResourceBase(req);
            location = base + "/" + location;
        }

        Template template = configuration.getTemplate(location, deduceLocale());
        TemplateModel model = createModel();

        // Give subclasses a chance to hook into preprocessing
        if (preTemplateProcess(template, model)) {
            try {
                // Process the template
                template.process(model, getWriter());
            } finally {
                // Give subclasses a chance to hook into postprocessing
                postTemplateProcess(template, model);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * This method is called from {@link #doExecute(String, ActionInvocation)} to obtain the
     * FreeMarker configuration object that this result will use for template loading. This is a
     * hook that allows you to custom-configure the configuration object in a subclass, or to fetch
     * it from an IoC container.
     * <p/>
     * <b>
     * The default implementation obtains the configuration from the ConfigurationManager instance.
     * </b>
     */
    protected Configuration getConfiguration() throws TemplateException {
        return freemarkerManager.getConfiguration(ServletActionContext.getServletContext());
    }

    /**
     * This method is called from {@link #doExecute(String, ActionInvocation)}  to obtain the
     * FreeMarker object wrapper object that this result will use for adapting objects into template
     * models. This is a hook that allows you to custom-configure the wrapper object in a subclass.
     * <p/>
     * <b>
     * The default implementation returns {@link Configuration#getObjectWrapper()}
     * </b>
     */
    protected ObjectWrapper getObjectWrapper() {
        return configuration.getObjectWrapper();
    }


    public void setWriter(Writer writer) {
        this.writer = writer;
    }

    /**
     * The default writer writes directly to the response writer.
     */
    protected Writer getWriter() throws IOException {
        if(writer != null) {
            return writer;
        }
        return ServletActionContext.getResponse().getWriter();
    }

    /**
     * Build the instance of the ScopesHashModel, including JspTagLib support
     * <p/>
     * Objects added to the model are
     * <p/>
     * <ul>
     * <li>Application - servlet context attributes hash model
     * <li>JspTaglibs - jsp tag lib factory model
     * <li>Request - request attributes hash model
     * <li>Session - session attributes hash model
     * <li>request - the HttpServletRequst object for direct access
     * <li>response - the HttpServletResponse object for direct access
     * <li>stack - the OgnLValueStack instance for direct access
     * <li>ognl - the instance of the OgnlTool
     * <li>action - the action itself
     * <li>exception - optional : the JSP or Servlet exception as per the servlet spec (for JSP Exception pages)
     * <li>struts - instance of the StrutsUtil class
     * </ul>
     */
    protected TemplateModel createModel() throws TemplateModelException {
        ServletContext servletContext = ServletActionContext.getServletContext();
        HttpServletRequest request = ServletActionContext.getRequest();
        HttpServletResponse response = ServletActionContext.getResponse();
        ValueStack stack = ServletActionContext.getContext().getValueStack();

        Object action = null;
        if(invocation!= null ) action = invocation.getAction(); //Added for NullPointException
        return freemarkerManager.buildTemplateModel(stack, action, servletContext, request, response, wrapper);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the locale used for the {@link Configuration#getTemplate(String, Locale)} call. The base implementation
     * simply returns the locale setting of the action (assuming the action implements {@link LocaleProvider}) or, if
     * the action does not the configuration's locale is returned. Override this method to provide different behaviour,
     */
    protected Locale deduceLocale() {
        if (invocation.getAction() instanceof LocaleProvider) {
            return ((LocaleProvider) invocation.getAction()).getLocale();
        } else {
            return configuration.getLocale();
        }
    }

    /**
     * the default implementation of postTemplateProcess applies the contentType parameter
     */
    protected void postTemplateProcess(Template template, TemplateModel data) throws IOException {
    }

    /**
     * Called before the execution is passed to template.process().
     * This is a generic hook you might use in subclasses to perform a specific
     * action before the template is processed. By default does nothing.
     * A typical action to perform here is to inject application-specific
     * objects into the model root
     *
     * @return true to process the template, false to suppress template processing.
     */
    protected boolean preTemplateProcess(Template template, TemplateModel model) throws IOException {
        Object attrContentType = template.getCustomAttribute("content_type");

        if (attrContentType != null) {
            ServletActionContext.getResponse().setContentType(attrContentType.toString());
        } else {
            String contentType = getContentType();

            if (contentType == null) {
                contentType = "text/html";
            }

            String encoding = template.getEncoding();

            if (encoding != null) {
                contentType = contentType + "; charset=" + encoding;
            }

            ServletActionContext.getResponse().setContentType(contentType);
        }

        return true;
    }
}