Sharp Template engine

SharpTemplate

If it would be needed to generate files in runtime, these classes can be used in conjunction with the compilation utilities to compile the templates.

The target is to have a system like the one used by ASP.NET to compile the Razor templates into class. If you need it you could use these class as Razor classes :) I will add a specific post about this in the near future!

Keywords

Usage - Input and Output

Given a template with the following content, like into the unit tests of the sharp template project (Resources/ClassTemplate.cs)

<#using# SharpTemplate.Test.Resources#>
<#using#SharpTemplate.Test#>
<#model# ParseCompileModel#>
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace TestNamespace
{
	public class <# Write(model.ClassName); #>{

		public  <# Write(model.ClassName); #>()
		{
		
		}

		public List<string> <# Write(model.MethodName); #>()
		{
			var result = new List<string>();
			for(int i = 0;i<<# Write(model.UpTo.ToString()); #>;i++){
				result.Add(i.ToString());
			}
			return result;
		}
	}
}

Given a model, with the following value

The following class will be created calling the ISharpResult class

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using SharpTemplate.Test;
using SharpTemplate.Test.Resources;

namespace TestNamespace
{
	public class ResultingClass{

		public  ResultingClass()
		{
		
		}

		public List<string> MethodToInvoke()
		{
			var result = new List<string>();
			for(int i = 0;i<10;i++){
				result.Add(i.ToString());
			}
			return result;
		}
	}
}

Usage - The compilation

To create the template the compilation utils must be used, for example (see the next paragraph for the compilation utils specific stuff)

		const string dllName = "CompileClassTemplate";
		const string resultDllName = "CompileResultingTemplate";
		var path = TestUtils.GetExecutionPath();
		var source = ResourceContentLoader.LoadText("ClassTemplate.cs", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());

		var pp = new SharpParser();
		var sharpClass = pp.ParseClass(source, "TestParserClass", "SharpTemplate.Test.Resources.Parsers");

		var loadedAssembly = BuildParserClass(dllName, path, sharpClass);

		var content = File.ReadAllBytes(loadedAssembly);
		var compileSimpleObjectAsm = Assembly.Load(content);
		var instance = (ISharpResult)Activator.CreateInstance(compileSimpleObjectAsm.FullName,
			"SharpTemplate.Test.Resources.Parsers.TestParserClass").Unwrap();


		var model = new ParseCompileModel("ResultingClass", "MethodToInvoke", 10);
		instance.Execute(model);
		var writtenModel = instance.Content;

		var resultingAssembly = BuildGenericClass(resultDllName, path, "TestNamespace", "ResultingClass",writtenModel);
		content = File.ReadAllBytes(resultingAssembly);
		compileSimpleObjectAsm = Assembly.Load(content);

		var instanceFinal = Activator.CreateInstance(compileSimpleObjectAsm.FullName, "TestNamespace.ResultingClass").Unwrap();
		var method = instanceFinal.GetType().GetMethod("MethodToInvoke");
		
		List<string> result = method.Invoke(instanceFinal, new object[] { }) as List<string>;

Suggestion

One thing for which i use this parser is to generate files inside the Visual Studio Extension. With this i can create parser that given a certain model inpute (xml, specific class) can create a complex class using the C# syntax like i could do with cshtml and razor templates.

Compilation Utils

This is a bunch of classes that could be useful to compile objects in runtime. All unit-tested.

Usage

	const string dllName = "CompileSimpleObject";
	var path = Path.GetTempPath();
	var source = ResourceContentLoader.LoadText("SimpleObject.cs", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
	
	var sc = new SourceCompiler(dllName, path);
	sc.UseAppdomain = true;
	sc.AddFile("SharpTemplate.Test.Resources.Compilers", "SimpleObject", source);
	sc.LoadCurrentAssemblies();
	var loadedAssemblyPath = sc.Compile(2);

	var content = File.ReadAllBytes(loadedAssemblyPath);
	var compileSimpleObjectAsm = Assembly.Load(content);
	var instance = (ISimpleObject)Activator.CreateInstance(compileSimpleObjectAsm.FullName, 
		"SharpTemplate.Test.Resources.Compilers.SimpleObject").Unwrap();

Notes

	var content = File.ReadAllBytes(loadedAssemblyPath);
	var compileSimpleObjectAsm = Assembly.Load(content);
	File.Delete(loadedAssemblyPath);

Logging

Given the temporary path in wich the library will write the dll

StillTodo

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