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package org.springframework.ui.freemarker;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import freemarker.template.Template;
import freemarker.template.TemplateException;
/**
* Utility class for working with FreeMarker.
* Provides convenience methods to process a FreeMarker template with a model.
*
* @author Juergen Hoeller
* @since 14.03.2004
*/
public abstract class FreeMarkerTemplateUtils {
/**
* Process the specified FreeMarker template with the given model and write
* the result to the given Writer.
* <p>When using this method to prepare a text for a mail to be sent with Spring's
* mail support, consider wrapping IO/TemplateException in MailPreparationException.
* @param model the model object, typically a Map that contains model names
* as keys and model objects as values
* @return the result as String
* @throws IOException if the template wasn't found or couldn't be read
* @throws freemarker.template.TemplateException if rendering failed
* @see org.springframework.mail.MailPreparationException
*/
public static String processTemplateIntoString(Template template, Object model)
throws IOException, TemplateException {
StringWriter result = new StringWriter();
template.process(model, result);
return result.toString();
}
}