IMPORTANT: It's not even finished yet, so don't use it for anything important.
Amps offers a simple and small text-based template language for general purposes. It's inspired by Jinja2 - but light-years away from the quality achieved by Jinja2.
Given a template file and an user data, Amps will use that user data to create a result file based on the template file.
A basic template looks like:
% cat template.tpl<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.odd { background-color: #ccc }
.even { background-color: #fcfcfc }
</style>
</head>
<body>
{% insert "include.tpl" %}
<p>List of cities:</p>
<ul>
{% for city in cities %}
<li>{= city =}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
<p>The city number 4 (zero-indexed) is {= cities[3] =}</p>
{% insert "include.tpl" %}
<p>Counting from -5 to +5:</p>
<ul>
{% for number in range(-5, 6, 1) %}
{% if number % 2 eq 0 %}
<li class="even">{= number =}</li>
{% else %}
<li class="odd">{= number =}</li>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</ul>
{% insert "include.tpl" %}
<p>Songs:</p>
<ul>
{% for band, song in songs %}
<li>{= band =} : {= song =}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
<p>Aerosmith´ song: {= songs["aerosmith"] =}.</p>
</body>
</html>% cat include.tpl<p>Hello, {= name =}. From include.tpl</p>The C++ code is:
amps::user_map ht {
{"name", "Jose"},
{"cities", vector<string>{
"Sao Paulo",
"Paris",
"NYC",
"London",
"Lisbon"}},
{"songs", unordered_map<string, string>{
{"guns and roses", "patience"},
{"aerosmith", "crazy"},
{"led zeppelin", "immigrant song"},
{"pink floyd", "high hopes"}}},
};
engine.compile(ht);And expected result is:
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.odd { background-color: #ccc }
.even { background-color: #fcfcfc }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, Jose. From include.tpl</p>
<p>List of cities:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sao Paulo</li>
<li>Paris</li>
<li>NYC</li>
<li>London</li>
<li>Lisbon</li>
</ul>
<p>The city number 4 (zero-indexed) is London</p>
<p>Hello, Jose. From include.tpl</p>
<p>Couting from -5 to +5:</p>
<ul>
<li class="odd">-5</li>
<li class="even">-4</li>
<li class="odd">-3</li>
<li class="even">-2</li>
<li class="odd">-1</li>
<li class="even">0</li>
<li class="odd">1</li>
<li class="even">2</li>
<li class="odd">3</li>
<li class="even">4</li>
<li class="odd">5</li>
</ul>
<p>Hello, Jose. From include.tpl</p>
<p>Songs:</p>
<ul>
<li>guns and roses : patience</li>
<li>aerosmith : crazy</li>
<li>led zeppelin : immigrant song</li>
<li>pink floyd : high hopes</li>
</ul>
<p>Aerosmith´ song: crazy.</p>
</body>
</html>There is a build script provided. Running:
% ./build --binary --linux --release --staticWill create a folder called bin/release with:
% ls bin/release
include.tpl libamps.so template.tpl amps_sampleThe file libamps.so is the important thing here, amps_sample is an example on how to use that lib. The sample will run with:
% ./amps_sample template.tplIt's also possible to create the same objects with debug symbols included:
% ./build --binary --linux --debug --dynamicOr building a static library version for both, cleaning the current tree:
% ./build --clear --binary --linux --debug --release --static% ./build --test