freemarker-cli-2.0.0-BETA-5

Added

• Support interactive mode (-i or --interactive) to supply FreeMarker templates on the command line
• UUIDTool to create random and named UUIDs
• ExcelTool returns raw table consisting of the underlying Java data type
• Document#getUnsafeInputStream to get a input stream which needs to be closed by the caller
• CSVTool allows parsing plain string CSV
• Tools are loaded from freemarker-cli.properties and freely configurable
• Add RAT & PMD report to Maven site generation
• Add -times command line option to execute the transformation N times

Changed

• Renamed ExcelTool#parseSheet to ExcelTool#toTable
• Removed various Tool constructors taking Settings
• Do not use documents[0] as top-level variable - use Documents.get(0) instead
• Available CSV formats are exposed using the CSVTool and not the global data model
• Expose user-supplied system properties as top-level variables when using -E
• Keep track of all Closables created & handed out to FreeMarker template rendering
• Move ObjectConstructor, Statics and Enums into FreeMarkerTool

Deleted

• Environment & SystemProperties were deleted and the functionality moved to SystemTool
• All DataModel classes were deleted

freemarker-cli-2.0.0-BETA-4

Added

• Support executing arbitrary command based on Apache Commons Exec
• The JsonPathTool supports parsing a string

freemarker-cli-2.0.0-BETA-3

Added

• Keeping track of internally created "Closables" of a document and closing them after rendering
• Define CSV delimiters using symbolic symbolic names, e.g. "COMMA", "TAB", etc.

Fixed

• Use expected order of FreeMarker MultiTemplateLoader to reolve a template

freemarker-cli-2.0.0-BETA-2

Added

• Add "-E" command line option to expose all environment variable as top-level entry in the data model
• Support for Grok as better alternative for regular expressions
• Support for streaming textual content over System.in to allow processing of arbitrary large source files
• Display Git version information when using -V command line option

Fixed

• ExcelTool uses MissingCellPolicy.CREATE_NULL_AS_BLANK to handle missing cells
• Pass the correct output encoding to writer
• Allow absolute template file names which are loaded directly instead of using TemplateLoaders

freemarker-cli-2.0.0-BETA-1

• Migrated from Groovy to plain JDK 1.8
• Works as standalone application with OS wrapper scripts
• Improved Commons CSV support
• Add YAML support based on SnakeYAML
• Lot of internal refactoring & cleanup
• Existing templates will break due to naming changes of injected helper classes

freemarker-cli-1.0.1

Most notable changes

• Transform property files into CSV
• Upgrade to the latest Bootstrap release for HTML output
• Shell script to trigger all transformations on the command line

Initial release

v1.0.0

Prepare a 1.0.0 release on GitHub