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Jul 17, 2012 5:41 PM by
Parodi Andrea
Awesome!
"If anyonw wants to help us, please feel free to."
I would love to do it 
Is there anything started? Will the module be hosted on github?
Indeed I think it would be nice to have a Kotlin templating system, and a comprehensive API for controllers.
I guess it will be based on Play2.0. Do you know if the kotlin version will support JPA annotations (like java version) or someting like Anom (like in play2 scala version)?
Great news anyway!
That all sounds very interesting I'm particularly interested in the HTML based template based on Kotlin multiline-string - that sounds awesome!
I've been hoping we can get Kotiln templates in the language (rather like Groovy Strings) so that we can use HTML / SQL / localisation escaping of multi-line strings. I've done most of the work in the standard library; we just need the compiler/language hooks to turn string templates into StringTemplate objects rather than Strings. e.g.
- here's a Kotlin JDBC example which really should be using a string template (which then under the covers does the correct SQL escaping of parameters with ?.
- then here's a HTML example which should perform proper HTML escaping
- and a localisation example
i.e. "foo $bar whatnot" should be equivalent to StringTemplate("foo ", bar, " whatnot") so that the dynamic values can be escaped/processed in different ways depending on context (localisation, html/xml/json encoding etc).
Having said all that I'd be very interested to see your work - fancy submitting it to a github project? Feel free to add it as a module in kool.io if you like? (Just fork it from github & submit a pull request?).
Your framework looks really cool, I would be happy to see the code and to try it too
BTW by intellisense did you mean the language injection support in IDEA? If so how did you get it work?
It works great for me in Java using the @Language annotation; though it doesn't seem to work for me in Kotlin though. Did you figure out a way?
I've raised http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-2428 to track it in the meantime.
Thank you Loic, I'm happy you appreciate my work
To start the sample site, if you've managed to resolve all jar dependencies, there is
a main() function in sites\welcome\src\main\kweb-kotlin\App.kt.
It start the netty server and launch your browser on localhost:8080.
I need any kind of help to go on, your collaboration will be precious!
According to you what could be the best way to go on: continue with a new framework,
or to develop some kind of module to integrate in Play?
I think that the first option could attract developers that are not satisfied with Play 2
and its complete Scala rewrite, while the second option could attract all other
Play developers (the ones which like Play2...)
If you look at kw.views.Html.kt, it is all taken from the html builder sample, I think it's
better to replace that with kool.io templates from James.
Sure. I'll write a post on a new thread explicitly asking for this. Could I speak of our project?
Of course you can, it' your "child" 
I've see on your Github account Play2-HTML5Tags and I think, if you agree, that it would be great to convert it to Kotlin and use it as part of the framework template.
I think If we take this way and also
- improve KWeb template on the side of intellisense support (It is hard to configure and a bit fragile now)
- improve it on the side of HTML escaping to make it usable at least in beta quality pages with a minimum of security.
- include kool.io template, improved with your html5 input tags and my bootstrap tags
that we could get a great template framework that we could we use both in a completely new web framework and in a Kotlin Play module.
Great idea, it looks exciting!
Another thing we could improve I think is the routes definition (App.kt). If we use a kind of template for this it would be more readable.