001package io.jstach.jstache;
002
003import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
004import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
005import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
006import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
007import java.lang.annotation.Target;
008import java.util.Map;
009import java.util.Optional;
010
011/**
012 * Generates a JStachio Renderer from a template and a model (the annotated class).
013 * <p>
014 * Classes annotated are typically called "models" as they will be the root context for
015 * the template.
016 *
017 * <h2 class="toc-title">Contents</h2> <div class="js-toc"></div>
018 * <div class="js-toc-content">
019 * <h2 id="_example">Example Usage</h2>
020 *
021 * <pre class="code">
022 * <code>
023 * &#64;JStache(template = &quot;&quot;&quot;
024 *     {{#people}}
025 *     {{message}} {{name}}! You are {{#ageInfo}}{{age}}{{/ageInfo}} years old!
026 *     {{#-last}}
027 *     That is all for now!
028 *     {{/-last}}
029 *     {{/people}}
030 *     &quot;&quot;&quot;)
031 * public record HelloWorld(String message, List&lt;Person&gt; people) implements AgeLambdaSupport {}
032 *
033 * public record Person(String name, LocalDate birthday) {}
034 *
035 * public record AgeInfo(long age, String date) {}
036 *
037 * public interface AgeLambdaSupport {
038 *   &#64;JStacheLambda
039 *   default AgeInfo ageInfo(
040 *       Person person) {
041 *     long age = ChronoUnit.YEARS.between(person.birthday(), LocalDate.now());
042 *     String date = person.birthday().format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_DATE);
043 *     return new AgeInfo(age, date);
044 *   }
045 * }
046 * </code> </pre>
047 *
048 * <h2 id="_model_and_templates">Models and Templates</h2>
049 *
050 * Because JStachio checks types its best to think of the model and template as married.
051 * With the exception of partials JStachio cannot have a template without a model and vice
052 * versa. The way to create Renderer (what we call the model and template combined) is to
053 * annotate your model with {@link io.jstach.jstache.JStache}.
054 *
055 * <h3 id="_models">Models</h3> <strong>&#64;{@link io.jstach.jstache.JStache}</strong>
056 * <p>
057 * A JStachio model can be any class type including Records and Enums so long as you can
058 * you annotate the type with {@link io.jstach.jstache.JStache}.
059 * <p>
060 * When the compiler runs the annotation processor will create readable java classes that
061 * are suffixed with "Renderer" which will have methods to write the model to an
062 * {@link java.lang.Appendable}. The generated instance methods are named
063 * <code>execute</code> and the corresponding static methods are named
064 * <code>render</code>.
065 * <p>
066 * <em>TIP: If you like to see the generated classes from the annotation processor they
067 * usually get put in <code>target/generated-sources/annotations</code> for Maven
068 * projects.</em>
069 *
070 * <h4 id="_decorating_models">Adding interfaces to models and renderers</h4>
071 * <strong>&#64;{@link io.jstach.jstache.JStacheInterfaces}</strong>
072 * <p>
073 * Java has a huge advantage over JSON and Javascript. <em>You can use interfaces to add
074 * additional variables as well as lambda methods
075 * ({@link io.jstach.jstache.JStacheLambda})!</em> To enforce that certain interfaces are
076 * added to models (the ones annotated) and renderers (the generated classes) you can use
077 * {@link io.jstach.jstache.JStacheInterfaces} on packages or the classes themselves.
078 * <p>
079 * You can also make generated classes have {@link ElementType#TYPE} annotations (see
080 * {@link JStacheInterfaces#templateAnnotations()}) and extend a class
081 * {@link JStacheInterfaces#templateExtends()}) as well which maybe useful for integration
082 * with other frameworks particularly DI frameworks.
083 *
084 * <h3 id="_templates">Templates</h3>
085 *
086 * The format of the templates should by default be Mustache. The syntax is informally
087 * explained by the
088 * <a href="https://jgonggrijp.gitlab.io/wontache/mustache.5.html">mustache manual</a> and
089 * formally explained by the <a href="https://github.com/mustache/spec">spec</a>. There
090 * are some subtle differences in JStachio version of Mustache due to the static nature
091 * that are discussed in <a href="#_context_lookup">context lookup</a>. <strong>Template
092 * finding is as follows:</strong>
093 * <ol>
094 * <li><code>path</code> which is a classpath with slashes following the same format as
095 * the ClassLoader resources. The path maybe augmented with {@link JStachePath}.
096 * <li><code>template</code> which if not empty is used as the template contents
097 * <li>if the above is not set then the name of the class suffixed with ".mustache" is
098 * used as the resource.
099 * </ol>
100 *
101 * <h4 id="_inline_templates">Inline Templates</h4>
102 * <strong>{@link io.jstach.jstache.JStache#template()}</strong>
103 * <p>
104 * Inline templates are pretty straight forward. Just set
105 * {@link io.jstach.jstache.JStache#template()} to a literal string. If you go this route
106 * it is <em>highly recommend you use the new triple quote string literal for inline
107 * templates</em>
108 *
109 * <h4 id="_resource_templates">Resource Templates</h4>
110 * <strong>{@link io.jstach.jstache.JStache#path()} and
111 * &#64;{@link io.jstach.jstache.JStachePath} </strong>
112 * <p>
113 * Resource templates are files that are in the classpath and are more complicated because
114 * of lookup resolution.
115 * <p>
116 * When the annotation processor runs these files usually are in:
117 * <code>javax.tools.StandardLocation#CLASS_OUTPUT</code> and in a Maven or Gradle project
118 * they normally would reside in <code>src/main/resources</code> or
119 * <code>src/test/resources</code> which get copied on build to
120 * <code>target/classes</code> or similar. <em>N.B. becareful not to have resource
121 * filtering turned on for mustache templates.</em>
122 * <p>
123 * Ideally JStachio would use <code>javax.tools.StandardLocation#SOURCE_PATH</code> to
124 * find resource templates but that is currently <a href=
125 * "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22494596/eclipse-annotation-processor-get-project-path">
126 * problematic with incremental compilers such as Eclipse</a>.
127 * <p>
128 * Another issue with incremental compiling is that template files are not always copied
129 * after being edited to <code>target/classes</code> and thus are not found by the
130 * annotation processor. To deal with this issue JStachio during compilation fallsback to
131 * direct filesystem access and assumes that your templates are located:
132 * <code>CWD/src/main/resources</code>. That location is configurable via the annotation
133 * processor option {@link #RESOURCES_PATH_OPTION}
134 * (<strong>{@value #RESOURCES_PATH_OPTION}</strong>).
135 *
136 * <p>
137 * Normally you need to specify the full path in {@link #path()} which is a resource path
138 * (and not a file path) as specified by {@link ClassLoader#getResource(String)} however
139 * you can make path expansion happen with {@link io.jstach.jstache.JStachePath} which
140 * allows you to prefix and suffix the path.
141 *
142 * <h4 id="_partials">Partials</h4>
143 * <strong><code>{{&gt; partial }} and {{&lt; parent }}{{/parent}} </code></strong>
144 * <p>
145 * JStachio supports Mustache partials (and parents) and by default works just like
146 * template resources such that {@link io.jstach.jstache.JStachePath} is used for
147 * resolution if specified.
148 * <p>
149 * You may also remap partial names via {@link io.jstach.jstache.JStachePartial} to a
150 * different location as well as to an inline template (string literal).
151 *
152 *
153 * <h4 id="_optional_spec">Optional Spec Support</h4> JStachio implements some optional
154 * parts of the specification. Below shows what is and is not supported.
155 * <table border="1">
156 * <caption><strong>Optional Spec Features Table</strong></caption>
157 * <tr>
158 * <th>Name</th>
159 * <th>Supported</th>
160 * <th>Manual Description</th>
161 * </tr>
162 * <tr>
163 * <td>Lambda variables (arity 0)</td>
164 * <td style="color:red;">NO</td>
165 * <td>An optional part of the specification states that if the final key in the name is a
166 * lambda that returns a string, then that string should be rendered as a Mustache
167 * template before interpolation. It will be rendered using the default delimiters (see
168 * Set Delimiter below) against the current context.</td>
169 * </tr>
170 * <tr>
171 * <td>Lambda sections (arity 1)</td>
172 * <td style="color:blue;">YES</td>
173 * <td>An optional part of the specification states that if the final key in the name is a
174 * lambda that returns a string, then that string replaces the content of the section. It
175 * will be rendered using the same delimiters (see Set Delimiter below) as the original
176 * section content. In this way you can implement filters or caching.</td>
177 * </tr>
178 * <tr>
179 * <td>Dynamic Names</td>
180 * <td style="color:red;">NO</td>
181 * <td>Partials can be loaded dynamically at runtime using Dynamic Names; an optional part
182 * of the Mustache specification which allows to dynamically determine a tag's content at
183 * runtime.</td>
184 * </tr>
185 * <tr>
186 * <td>Blocks</td>
187 * <td style="color:blue;">YES</td>
188 * <td>A block begins with a dollar and ends with a slash. That is, {{$title}} begins a
189 * "title" block and {{/title}} ends it.</td>
190 * </tr>
191 * <tr>
192 * <td>Parents</td>
193 * <td style="color:blue;">YES</td>
194 * <td>A parent begins with a less than sign and ends with a slash. That is,
195 * {{&lt;article}} begins an "article" parent and {{/article}} ends it.</td>
196 * </tr>
197 * </table>
198 *
199 * <h3 id="_context_lookup">Context Lookup</h3>
200 *
201 * JStachio unlike almost all other Mustache implementations does its context lookup
202 * statically during compile time. Consequently JStachio pedantically is early bound where
203 * as Mustache is traditionally late bound. Most of the time this difference will not
204 * manifest itself so long as you avoid using {@link Map} in your models.
205 * <p>
206 * The other notable difference is JStachio does not like missing variables (a compiler
207 * error will happen) where as many Mustache implementations sometimes allow this and will
208 * just not output anything.
209 *
210 * <h4 id="_context_java_types">Interpretation of Java-types and values</h4> When some
211 * value is null nothing is rendered if it is used as a section. If some value is null and
212 * it is used as a variable a null pointer exception will be thrown by default. This is
213 * configurable via {@link JStacheFormatterTypes} and custom {@link JStacheFormatter}.
214 * <p>
215 * Boxed and unboxed <code>boolean</code> can be used for mustache-sections. Section is
216 * only rendered if value is true.
217 * <p>
218 * {@link Optional} empty is treated like an empty list or a boolean false. Optional
219 * values are always assumed to be non null.
220 * <p>
221 * {@code Map<String,?>} follow different nesting rules than other types. If you are in a
222 * {@link Map} nested section the rest of the context is checked before the
223 * <code>Map</code>. Once that is done the Map is then checked using
224 * {@link Map#get(Object)}' where the key is the <em>last part of the dotted name</em>.
225 * <p>
226 * Data-binding contexts are nested. Names are looked up in innermost context first. If
227 * name is not found in current context, parent context is inspected. This process
228 * continues up to root context.
229 *
230 * In each rendering context name lookup is performed as follows:
231 *
232 * <ol>
233 * <li>Method with requested name is looked up. Method should have no arguments and should
234 * throw no checked exceptions. If there is such method it is used to fetch actual data to
235 * render. Compile-time error is raised if there is method with given name, but it is not
236 * accessible, has parameters or throws checked exceptions.</li>
237 * <li>Method with requested name and annotated correctly with {@link JStacheLambda} and
238 * the lookup is for a section than the method lambda method will be used.</li>
239 * <li>Method with getter-name for requested name is looked up. (For example, if 'age' is
240 * requested, 'getAge' method is looked up.) Method should have no arguments and should
241 * throw no checked exceptions. If there is such method it is used to fetch actual data to
242 * render. Compile-time error is raised if there is method with such name, but it is not
243 * accessible, has parameters or throws checked exceptions</li>
244 *
245 * <li>Field with requested name is looked up. Compile-time error is raised if there is
246 * field with such name but it's not accessible.</li>
247 * </ol>
248 *
249 * <h4 id="_enums">Enum matching Support Extension</h4> Basically enums have boolean keys
250 * that are the enums name (`Enum.name()`) that can be used as conditional sections.
251 * Assume `light` is an enum like:
252 *
253 * <pre>
254 * <code class="language-java">
255 * public enum Light {
256 *   RED,
257 *   GREEN,
258 *   YELLOW
259 * }
260 * </code> </pre>
261 *
262 * You can conditinally select on the enum like a pattern match:
263 *
264 * <pre>
265 * <code class="language-hbs">
266 * {{#light.RED}}
267 * STOP
268 * {{/light.RED}}
269 * {{#light.GREEN}}
270 * GO
271 * {{/light.GREEN}}
272 * {{#light.YELLOW}}
273 * Proceeed with caution
274 * {{/light.YELLOW}}
275 * </code> </pre>
276 *
277 * <h4 id="_index_support">Index Support Extension</h4>
278 *
279 * JStachio is compatible with both handlebars and JMustache index keys for iterable
280 * sections.
281 * <ol>
282 * <li><code>-first</code> is boolean that is true when you are on the first item
283 * <li><code>-last</code> is a boolean that is true when you are on the last item in the
284 * iterable
285 * <li><code>-index</code> is a one based index. The first item would be `1` and not `0`
286 * </ol>
287 *
288 * <h3 id="_lambdas">Lambda Support</h3>
289 *
290 * <strong>&#64;{@link JStacheLambda}</strong>
291 * <p>
292 * JStachio supports lambda section calls in a similar manner to
293 * <a href="https://github.com/samskivert/jmustache">JMustache</a>. Just tag your methods
294 * with {@link JStacheLambda} and the returned models will be used to render the contents
295 * of the lambda section. The top of the context stack can be passed to the lambda.
296 *
297 *
298 * <h2 id="_code_generation">Code Generation</h2>
299 *
300 * <strong>&#64;{@link io.jstach.jstache.JStacheConfig#type()}</strong>
301 * <p>
302 * JStachio by default reads mustache syntax and generates code that needs the jstachio
303 * runtime (io.jstache.jstachio). However it is possible to generate code that does not
304 * need the runtime and possibly in the future other syntaxs like Handlebars might be
305 * supported.
306 *
307 * <h3 id="_methods_generated">Generated Renderer Classes</h3> JStachio generates a single
308 * class from a mustache template and model (class annotated with JStache) pair. The
309 * generated classes are generally called "Renderers" or sometimes "Templates". Depending
310 * on which JStache type is picked different methods are generated. The guaranteed
311 * generated methods <em>not to change on minor version or less</em> on the renderer
312 * classes are discussed in <strong>{@link JStacheType}</strong>.
313 *
314 * <h3 id="_zero_dep">Zero dependency code generation</h3>
315 *
316 * <strong>&#64;{@link io.jstach.jstache.JStacheConfig#type()} ==
317 * {@link JStacheType#STACHE}</strong>
318 * <p>
319 * Zero dependency code generation is useful if you want to avoid coupling your runtime
320 * and downstream dependencies with JStachio (including the annotations themselves) as
321 * well as minimize the overall footprint and or classes loaded. A common use case would
322 * be using jstachio for code generation in an annotation processing library where you
323 * want as minimal class path issues as possible.
324 * <p>
325 * If this configuration is selected generated code will <strong>ONLY have references to
326 * stock base JDK module ({@link java.base/}) classes</strong>. However one major caveat
327 * is that generated classes will not be reflectively accessible to the JStachio runtime
328 * and thus fallback and filtering will not work. Thus in a web framework environment this
329 * configuration choice is less desirable.
330 * <p>
331 * <em>n.b. as long as the jstachio annotations are not accessed reflectively you do not
332 * need the annotation jar in the classpath during runtime thus the annotations jar is
333 * effectively an optional compile time dependency.</em>
334 *
335 *
336 * <h2 id="_formatting">Formatting variables</h2>
337 *
338 * JStachio has strict control on what happens when you output a variable like
339 * <code>{{variable}}</code> or <code>{{{variable}}}</code>.
340 *
341 * <h3 id="_allowed_types">Allowed formatting types</h3> <strong>
342 * &#64;{@link io.jstach.jstache.JStacheFormatterTypes}</strong>
343 * <p>
344 * Only a certain set of types are allowed to be formatted and if they are not a compiler
345 * error will happen (as in the annotation processor will fail). To understand more about
346 * that see {@link io.jstach.jstache.JStacheFormatterTypes}.
347 *
348 * <h3 id="_runtime_formatting">Runtime formatting</h3>
349 * <strong>&#64;{@link io.jstach.jstache.JStacheFormatter} and
350 * &#64;{@link JStacheConfig#formatter()}</strong>
351 * <p>
352 * Assuming the compiler allowed the variable to be formatted you can control the output
353 * via {@link io.jstach.jstache.JStacheFormatter} and setting
354 * {@link io.jstach.jstache.JStacheConfig#formatter()}.
355 *
356 * <h2 id="_escaping">Escaping and Content Type</h2>
357 * <strong>&#64;{@link io.jstach.jstache.JStacheContentType}, and
358 * &#64;{@link JStacheConfig#contentType()} </strong>
359 * <p>
360 * If you are using the JStachio runtime (io.jstach.jstachio) you will get out of the box
361 * escaping for HTML (see <code>io.jstach.jstachio.escapers.Html</code>) per the mustache
362 * spec.
363 * <p>
364 * <strong>To disable escaping</strong> set {@link JStacheConfig#contentType()} to
365 * <code>io.jstach.jstachio.escapers.PlainText</code>
366 *
367 * <h2 id="_config">Configuration</h2> <strong>&#64;{@link JStacheConfig}</strong>
368 * <p>
369 * You can set global configuration on class, packages and module elements. See
370 * {@link JStacheConfig} for more details on config resolution. Some configuration is set
371 * through compiler flags and annotation processor options. However {@link JStacheConfig}
372 * unlike compiler flags and annotation processor options are available during runtime
373 * through reflective access.
374 *
375 * <h3 id="_config_flags">Compiler flags</h3>
376 *
377 * The compiler has some boolean flags that can be set statically via {@link JStacheFlags}
378 * as well as through annotation processor options.
379 *
380 * <h3 id="_config_compiler">Annotation processor options</h3>
381 *
382 * Some configuration is available as an annotation processor option. Current available
383 * options are:
384 *
385 * <ul>
386 * <li>{@link #RESOURCES_PATH_OPTION}</li>
387 * </ul>
388 *
389 * The previously mentioned {@link JStacheFlags compiler flags} are also available as
390 * annotation options. The flags are prefixed with "<code>jstache.</code>". For example
391 * {@link JStacheFlags.Flag#DEBUG} would be:
392 * <p>
393 * <code>jstache.debug=true/false</code>.
394 *
395 * <h4 id="_config_compiler_maven">Configuring options with Maven</h4>
396 *
397 * Example configuration with Maven:
398 *
399 * <pre class="language-xml">{@code
400 * <plugin>
401 *     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
402 *     <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
403 *     <version>3.8.1</version>
404 *     <configuration>
405 *         <source>17</source>
406 *         <target>17</target>
407 *         <annotationProcessorPaths>
408 *             <path>
409 *                 <groupId>io.jstach</groupId>
410 *                 <artifactId>jstachio-apt</artifactId>
411 *                 <version>${io.jstache.version}</version>
412 *             </path>
413 *         </annotationProcessorPaths>
414 *         <compilerArgs>
415 *             <arg>
416 *                 -Ajstache.resourcesPath=src/main/resources
417 *             </arg>
418  *             <arg>
419 *                 -Ajstache.debug=false
420 *             </arg>
421 *         </compilerArgs>
422 *     </configuration>
423 * </plugin>
424 * }</pre>
425 *
426 * <h4 id="_config_compiler_gradle">Configuring options with Gradle</h4>
427 *
428 * Example configuration with Gradle:
429 *
430 * <pre><code class="language-kotlin">
431 * compileJava {
432 *     options.compilerArgs += [
433 *     '-Ajstache.resourcesPath=src/main/resources'
434 *     ]
435 * }
436 * </code> </pre>
437 *
438 *
439 * </div>
440 *
441 * @author agentgt
442 * @see JStachePath
443 * @see JStacheFormatterTypes
444 * @see JStacheConfig
445 * @see JStacheFormatter
446 * @see JStacheContentType
447 * @see JStacheConfig
448 */
449@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
450@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
451@Documented
452public @interface JStache {
453
454        /**
455         * Resource path to template
456         * @return Path to mustache template
457         * @see JStachePath
458         */
459        String path() default "";
460
461        /**
462         * Inline the template as a Java string instead of a file. Use the new triple quote
463         * string literal for complex templates.
464         * @return An inline template
465         */
466        String template() default "";
467
468        /**
469         * Name of generated class.
470         * <p>
471         * name can be omitted. <code>model.getClass().getName()</code> +
472         * {@link JStacheName#DEFAULT_SUFFIX} name is used by default.
473         * @return Name of generated class
474         */
475        String name() default "";
476
477        /**
478         * An annotation processor compiler flag
479         * (<strong>{@value #RESOURCES_PATH_OPTION}</strong>) that says where the templates
480         * files are located.
481         * <p>
482         * When the annotation processor runs these files usually are in:
483         * <code>javax.tools.StandardLocation#CLASS_OUTPUT</code> and in a Maven or Gradle
484         * project they normally would reside in <code>src/main/resources</code> or
485         * <code>src/test/resources</code> which get copied on build to
486         * <code>target/classes</code> or similar. However due to incremental compiling
487         * template files are not always copied to <code>target/classes</code> and thus are
488         * not found by the annotation processor. To deal with this issue JStachio during
489         * compilation fallsback to direct filesystem access of the <em>source</em> directory
490         * instead of the output (<code>javax.tools.StandardLocation#CLASS_OUTPUT</code>) if
491         * the files cannot be found.
492         * <p>
493         * If the path does not start with a path separator then it will be appended to the
494         * the current working directory otherwise it is assumed to be a fully qualified path.
495         * <p>
496         * The default location is <code>CWD/src/main/resources</code> where CWD is the
497         * current working directory.
498         *
499         * <strong>If the option is blank or empty then NO fallback will happen and
500         * effectively disables the above behavior. </strong>
501         *
502         * You can change it by passing to the annotation processor a setting for
503         * <strong>{@value #RESOURCES_PATH_OPTION}</strong> like:
504         * <pre><code>jstache.resourcesPath=some/path</code></pre>
505         *
506         * For build annotation processor configuration examples see:
507         * <ol>
508         * <li><a href="#_config_compiler_maven">Configuring options with Maven</a></li>
509         * <li><a href="#_config_compiler_gradle">Configuring options with Gradle</a></li>
510         * </ol>
511         *
512         */
513        public static final String RESOURCES_PATH_OPTION = "jstache.resourcesPath";
514
515}