using freemarker and spring to construct templates

Question

I am new to freemarker. I have a spring application that I am planning to use with freemarker. Templates will be stored in database and based on the login, I want to retrieve the template from database. Can any one tell me how to configure the freemarker in spring and get the html tags as a string after constructing the template. I did googling but I could not understand much.

I tried till this level. In spring I have done till this level. Finally I want html tags in a string.

// Spring freemarker specific code
Configuration configuration = freemarkerConfig.getConfiguration();
StringTemplateLoader stringTemplateLoader = new StringTemplateLoader();
// My application specific code
String temp = tempLoader.getTemplateForCurrentLogin();

Thanks.

Answer 1

To tie together the bits of code you posted, you can do something like this:

// you already have this bit
String templateText = tempLoader.getTemplateForCurrentLogin();

// now programmatically instantiate a template
Template t = new Template("t", new StringReader(templateText), new Configuration());

// now use the Spring utility class to process it into a string
// myData is your data model
String output = FreeMarkerTemplateUtils.processTemplateIntoString(template, myData);