Hi devs,
The {{velocity}} macro has a nice filter that removes the whitespace
from the start of each line. This allows us to format (indent) the
Velocity code without generating whitespace garbage.
Recently I had to move some Velocity macros from a wiki page to a
Velocity template file and the absence of this filter turned out to be
a pita. Even if my macros were generating HTML, consecutive
whitespaces were collapsed into a single one which was still visible,
breaking my layout a little. Some of my macros were generating Strings
which now contained a lot of whitespace. I had to update my functional
tests to trim the actual text taken from the UI whenever asserting
something.
WDYT about applying the same filter when parsing Velocity templates?
Do you see any problems with ignoring the whitespace at the start of
the line?
Thanks,
Marius