embd 0.1.0 - embedded D

[Nathan M. Swan]

On Wednesday, 6 March 2013 at 11:29:51 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> Am 06.03.2013 10:08, schrieb Nathan M. Swan:
>> Announcing the release of embd, a low-level (i.e. small) API 
>> for
>> embedding D code into text:
>> 
>> https://github.com/carlor/embd
>> 
>> It's a bit of an inconvenient API, but it's customizable and 
>> gives the
>> client control in what gets passed to the template.
>> 
>> I hope some of you find it useful!
>> 
>> NMS
>
> Great, finally something that works for plain text files!
>
> I guess a simple wrapper could make it work with a similar 
> interface to
> vibe.d's Diet templates (slightly ugly with that struct because 
> of the
> additional range template argument and not tested at all):
>
> struct renderEmbd(string FILE, ALIASES...)
> {
> 	class Context(R) : emdb.Context {
> 		R* _output;
>
> 		mixin(renderer);
> 	
> 		void write(string content, dchar evalCode){
> 			if (evalCode == '=')
> 				filterHtmlEscape(*_output, content);
> 			else
> 				_output.put(content);
> 		}
> 	}
>
> 	static void opCall(R)(ref R output_range)
> 	{
> 		static Context!R ctx;
> 		if( !ctx ) ctx = new Context!R;
> 		ctx._output = &output_range;
> 		scope(exit) ctx._output = null;
> 		ctx.render!(import(FILE), `!=`, `<%`, `%>`)();
> 	}
> }
>
>
> Usage:
>
> auto dst = appender!string();
> renderEmbd!("userprofile.embd.html", username, title, 
> biography)(dst);

Yes, my original intent was to use it in vibe.d projects.

Should I try to adopt it into vibe.d?

NMS