How to use stipple at compile time?

[Tiago Ribeiro]

Hi, I'm not having much luck using stipple during compile-time, calling new Template().fromString(....) from inside a macro.

I'm trying to build index.html from a bunch of html partials at compile time to reduce that task on the server for each request.

Any ideas how this can be done? Meanwhile I'm generating a small app instead and run it to compile the file.

This is the hxml file without creating the small app:

-cp src/html
-lib stipple
-lib hxparse
-lib compiletime
--macro "Build.build()"
--next .....

and this is creating the small app

-cp src/html
-main Build
-lib stipple
-lib hxparse
-lib compiletime
-neko app.n
-cmd neko src/html/app.n
--next .....

edit - at compiletime i also have compilation errors if the macro fails to build the template, running the program generates no errors if something is wrong.

[Niel Drummond]

Can you try again with the flag -D stipple_noprecompile ? This option was added to build templates at runtime, but since you are building in a macro, you should be precompiling anyway.

[Tiago Ribeiro]

Ok, what should i pass to the argument self:Expr?

[Tiago Ribeiro]

Oops, okay, after adding the stipple_noprecompile i am getting the error i always had:

It comes from: parseListAST -> offsetPosition -> Context.getPosInfos-> load(..) Invalid Call

If i use a template like simple string it works fine. As soon as i add a field to it like simple {{field}} i get that error.

[Niel Drummond]

You will not need to pass the self: Expr argument, because the signature using -D stipple_noprecompile falls back to the following signature:

public function fromString(tpl: String)

[Niel Drummond]

Ah right, yeh it's possible that might be an issue.. It's caused in AST.hx (and other places I'm not sure).

[Tiago Ribeiro]

Anyway this may not be that important, i have it working by creating the small neko file and run it when i compile, it seems that the compilation stops if there is a runtime error too so everything is going ok.

[Niel Drummond]

Can you try again with the latest commit ?

[Tiago Ribeiro]

Wow, such an easy fix, thanks! (worked)

[Niel Drummond]

Thanks for reporting!