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FreeMarker is a java based template engine for complex template processing. This requires the library freemarker-2.3.16.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using attempt and recover directives in FreeMarker. It is similar to try catch block in Java.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/freemarker/tests/AttemptRecoverTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.freemarker.tests;



import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.StringWriter;

import java.util.HashMap;

import java.util.Map;



import freemarker.template.Configuration;

import freemarker.template.Template;

import freemarker.template.TemplateException;



public class AttemptRecoverTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   * @throws TemplateException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, TemplateException  {



    //Get template from classpath

    Configuration cfg = new Configuration();

    cfg.setClassForTemplateLoading(AttemptRecoverTest.class, "/");

    Template template = cfg.getTemplate("recover.ftl");

    

    //Prepare data model

    Map<String, Object> dataModel = new HashMap<String, Object>();

    dataModel.put("name", "Sriram");

    dataModel.put("hobby", "Cricket");

    

    //Merge template and data

    StringWriter output = new StringWriter();

    template.process(dataModel, output);

    

    System.out.println("OUTPUT : ");

    System.out.println(output.toString());

  }

}

Attempt Recover