Hello! I need to implement the same dynamic web page in Python and Java. Though the request-handling and data-retrieval code will need to be written twice, it would be nice to be able to use a shared template. Clearsilver supports both languages, but from what I can tell, it uses native code, which isn't allowed in my case.

Is there a way to use Clearsilver without the native code component?

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What about using Jython and building the bulk of your logic/templating with Java?

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Currently, both the Python and Java implementations rely on the C
library (native code). We do have a pure-Java version here at Google,
and its our goal to open source it, but there's no ETA on when that
will happen.

Brandon

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:26 PM, cakoose <kannan <at> cakoose.com> wrote:
> Hello!  I need to implement the same dynamic web page in Python and Java.  Though the request-handling and data-retrieval code will need to be written twice, it would be nice to be able to use a shared template.  Clearsilver supports both languages, but from what I can tell, it uses native code, which isn't allowed in my case.
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Yeah... it's a bit unfortunate. We may or may not find a way around
implementing it twice. Either way, we also have an issue with native
code being disallowed.

I'm considering adding code generation support to Clearsilver -- just
something that converts the CSTREE to Python/Java code. The untyped
parse tree a little difficult to work with (just not what I'm used to)
but I figure I could plow through it and get a Python prototype in a
day or two if it comes to that.

Again, not sure if we're gonna go this route or not, I was just
wondering if anybody had already dealt with this sort of thing.

-- Kannan

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 21:01, Chris Trimble <trimbo <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> No, Clearsilver is implemented in C so you'll have to compile the native
> code for both.
> I'm responding mostly because I'm interested in why you have to implement
> the exact same web page in both Python and Java.  What's the requirement
> that necessitates this?  It seems like a maintenance nightmare.
>  - Chris
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> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:26 PM, cakoose <kannan <at> cakoose.com> wrote:
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>> Hello!  I need to implement the same dynamic web page in Python and Java.
>>  Though the request-handling and data-retrieval code will need to be written
>> twice, it would be nice to be able to use a shared template.  Clearsilver
>> supports both languages, but from what I can tell, it uses native code,
>> which isn't allowed in my case.
>>
>> Is there a way to use Clearsilver without the native code component?