A Java implementation of the Liquid templating engine backed up by an ANTLR grammar.
Add the dependency:
dependencies {
compile 'nl.big-o:liqp:0.6.8'
}Add the following dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>nl.big-o</groupId>
<artifactId>liqp</artifactId>
<version>0.6.8</version>
</dependency>Or clone this repository and run: mvn install which will create a JAR of Liqp
in your local Maven repository, as well as in the project's target/ folder.
This library can be used in two different ways:
- to construct an AST (abstract syntax tree) of some Liquid input
- to render Liquid input source (either files, or input strings)
To create an AST from input source, do the following:
String input =
"<ul id=\"products\"> \n" +
" {% for product in products %} \n" +
" <li> \n" +
" <h2>{{ product.name }}</h2> \n" +
" Only {{ product.price | price }} \n" +
" \n" +
" {{ product.description | prettyprint | paragraph }} \n" +
" </li> \n" +
" {% endfor %} \n" +
"</ul> \n";
Template template = Template.parse(input);
CommonTree root = template.getAST();As you can see, the getAST() method returns an instance of a
CommonTree denoting the root
node of the input source. To see how the AST is built, you can use Template#toStringAST() to print
an ASCII representation of the tree:
System.out.println(template.toStringAST());
/*
'- BLOCK
|- PLAIN='<ul id="products">'
|- FOR_ARRAY
| |- Id='product'
| |- LOOKUP
| | '- Id='products'
| |- BLOCK
| | |- PLAIN='<li> <h2>'
| | |- OUTPUT
| | | |- LOOKUP
| | | | |- Id='product'
| | | | '- Id='name'
| | | '- FILTERS
| | |- PLAIN='</h2> Only'
| | |- OUTPUT
| | | |- LOOKUP
| | | | |- Id='product'
| | | | '- Id='price'
| | | '- FILTERS
| | | '- FILTER
| | | |- Id='price'
| | | '- PARAMS
| | |- PLAIN=''
| | |- OUTPUT
| | | |- LOOKUP
| | | | |- Id='product'
| | | | '- Id='description'
| | | '- FILTERS
| | | |- FILTER
| | | | |- Id='prettyprint'
| | | | '- PARAMS
| | | '- FILTER
| | | |- Id='paragraph'
| | | '- PARAMS
| | '- PLAIN='</li>'
| '- ATTRIBUTES
'- PLAIN='</ul>'
*/Checkout the ANTLR grammar to see what the AST looks like for each of the parser rules.
If you're not familiar with Liquid, have a look at their website: http://liquidmarkup.org.
In Ruby, you'd render a template like this:
@template = Liquid::Template.parse("hi {{name}}") # Parses and compiles the template
@template.render( 'name' => 'tobi' ) # Renders the output => "hi tobi"With Liqp, the equivalent looks like this:
Template template = Template.parse("hi {{name}}");
String rendered = template.render("name", "tobi");
System.out.println(rendered);
/*
hi tobi
*/The template variables provided as parameters to render(...) can be:
- a varargs where
the 0th, 2nd, 4th, ... indexes must be
Stringliterals denoting the keys. The values can be anyObject. - a
Map<String, Object> - or a JSON string
The following examples are equivalent to the previous Liqp example:
Template template = Template.parse("hi {{name}}");
Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();
map.put("name", "tobi");
String rendered = template.render(map);
System.out.println(rendered);
/*
hi tobi
*/Template template = Template.parse("hi {{name}}");
String rendered = template.render("{\"name\" : \"tobi\"}");
System.out.println(rendered);
/*
hi tobi
*/Strict variables means that value for every key must be provided, otherwise an exception occurs.
Template template = Template.parse("hi {{name}}")
.withRenderSettings(new RenderSettings.Builder().withStrictVariables(true).build());
String rendered = template.render(); // no value for "name"
// exception is thrownLet's say you want to create a custom filter, called b, that changes a string like
*text* to <strong>text</strong>.
You can do that as follows:
// first register your custom filter
Filter.registerFilter(new Filter("b"){
@Override
public Object apply(Object value, Object... params) {
// create a string from the value
String text = super.asString(value);
// replace and return *...* with <strong>...</strong>
return text.replaceAll("\\*(\\w(.*?\\w)?)\\*", "<strong>$1</strong>");
}
});
// use your filter
Template template = Template.parse("{{ wiki | b }}");
String rendered = template.render("{\"wiki\" : \"Some *bold* text *in here*.\"}");
System.out.println(rendered);
/*
Some <strong>bold</strong> text <strong>in here</strong>.
*/And to use an optional parameter in your filter, do something like this:
// first register your custom filter
Filter.registerFilter(new Filter("repeat"){
@Override
public Object apply(Object value, Object... params) {
// get the text of the value
String text = super.asString(value);
// check if an optional parameter is provided
int times = params.length == 0 ? 1 : super.asNumber(params[0]).intValue();
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
while(times-- > 0) {
builder.append(text);
}
return builder.toString();
}
});
// use your filter
Template template = Template.parse("{{ 'a' | repeat }}\n{{ 'b' | repeat:5 }}");
String rendered = template.render();
System.out.println(rendered);
/*
a
bbbbb
*/You can use an array (or list) as well, and can also return a numerical value:
Filter.registerFilter(new Filter("sum"){
@Override
public Object apply(Object value, Object... params) {
Object[] numbers = super.asArray(value);
double sum = 0;
for(Object obj : numbers) {
sum += super.asNumber(obj).doubleValue();
}
return sum;
}
});
Template template = Template.parse("{{ numbers | sum }}");
String rendered = template.render("{\"numbers\" : [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}");
System.out.println(rendered);
/*
15.0
*/In short, override one of the apply() methods of the Filter class to create your own custom filter behaviour.
Let's say you would like to create a tag that makes it easy to loop for a fixed amount of times, executing a block of Liquid code.
Here's a way to create, and use, such a custom loop tag:
Tag.registerTag(new Tag("loop"){
@Override
public Object render(Map<String, Object> context, LNode... nodes) {
int n = super.asNumber(nodes[0].render(context)).intValue();
LNode block = nodes[1];
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
while(n-- > 0) {
builder.append(super.asString(block.render(context)));
}
return builder.toString();
}
});
Template template = Template.parse("{% loop 5 %}looping!\n{% endloop %}");
String rendered = template.render();
System.out.println(rendered);
/*
looping!
looping!
looping!
looping!
looping!
*/Note that both Tag.registerTag(Tag) and Filer.registerFilter(Filter) will add
tags and filters per JVM instance. If you want templates to use specific filters,
create your Template instance as follows:
Template.parse(source)
.with(filter);
Template.parse(source)
.with(tag);
// Or combine them:
Template.parse(source)
.with(filter)
.with(tag);For example, using the sum filter for just 1 template, would look like this:
Template template = Template.parse("{{ numbers | sum }}").with(new Filter("sum"){
@Override
public Object apply(Object value, Object... params) {
Object[] numbers = super.asArray(value);
double sum = 0;
for(Object obj : numbers) {
sum += super.asNumber(obj).doubleValue();
}
return sum;
}
});
String rendered = template.render("{\"numbers\" : [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}");
System.out.println(rendered);
/*
15.0
*/If you're evaluating templates from untrusted sources, there are a couple of ways you can guard against unwanted input.
For example, if you'd like the input template to be no larger than 125 characters, the templating engine should not perform more than 15 iterations in total, the generated string should not exceed 300 characters and the total rendering (and parsing!) time should not exceed 100 milliseconds, you could do something like this:
ProtectionSettings protectionSettings = new ProtectionSettings.Builder()
.withMaxSizeRenderedString(300)
.withMaxIterations(15)
.withMaxRenderTimeMillis(100L)
.withMaxTemplateSizeBytes(125)
.build();
String rendered = Template.parse("{% for i in (1..10) %}{{ text }}{% endfor %}")
.withProtectionSettings(protectionSettings)
.render("{\"text\": \"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\"}");
System.out.println(rendered);Note that not providing a ProtectionSettings, is the same as not having any guards in
place (or better, very large limits).