Exporter.java

package io;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.Collections;
import freemarker.template.*;

import objects.MyCourse;
import objects.Student;

// This class encapsulates logic to export the html
public class Exporter
{
    // Instantiate the freemarker configuration instance
    // and get our settings configured
    private Configuration cfg = new Configuration();

    public Exporter() {
        cfg.setClassForTemplateLoading(this.getClass(), "/res");
        cfg.setDefaultEncoding("UTF-8");
        cfg.setObjectWrapper(ObjectWrapper.BEANS_WRAPPER);
        cfg.setTemplateExceptionHandler(TemplateExceptionHandler.HTML_DEBUG_HANDLER);
    }

    public void exportCourseToHTML(MyCourse course, String filepath) {
        try {
            Writer templateWriter = new FileWriter(filepath);

            Template temp = cfg.getTemplate("export_template.html");

            //Collections.sort(course.getStudents(), Student.PseudoNameComparator);
            temp.process(course, templateWriter);

            templateWriter.close();
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println("Unable to access given filepath.");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch (TemplateException e) {
            System.err.println("Could not process template.");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

}