How is Mustache used in Jhipster Lite?

[octgsoftware]

Great work on Jhipster Lite!

The goal is to integrate Mustache templates into a project called sql-to-jdl I have been contributing to lately. Currently my preliminary work uses mustache.java which is working well.

Does Jhipster Lite use a Java or JavaScript implementation of mustache and how is the dependency added to the project?

I have been looking into how Mustache is being used in Jhipster Lite, but I cannot find any maven or npm dependency for mustache.java or mustache.js.

I tried

mvn compile dependency:tree

and

npm ll

However, I could find no reference to anything related to mustache.

[DamnClin]

Hello, we removed the lib some time ago and we are just using this https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-lite/blob/main/src/main/java/tech/jhipster/lite/module/domain/file/ArgumentsReplacer.java

[octgsoftware]

Thanks for the prompt response @DamnClin. I guess I should have done the following...

git log -S mustache.java

or

git log -S spullara

My previous search led me to ArgumentsReplacer.java, but it seemed to simple to do what mustache.java was doing with repeating sections.

Now I see there are quite a few options such as TextNeedleBeforeReplacer.java.

[DamnClin]

ArgumentsReplacer is doing lot less than real mustache but, for now, we only need that :D. No problem to add a new lib to anwser new needs. What do you want to achieve in JHLite?

[octgsoftware]

Currently I am working on a postgres database with no front end at all. sql-to-jdl only supported MySql so I contributed support for multiple databases and some other newer JDL features. I don't use Oracle or MsSQL, but I might add support for those anyway.

I was considering using mustache instead of the StringBuilder approach used in sql-to-jdl currently.
Also, there are a lot of views in the database and I wanted to generate some liquibase change logs and other files along with the generated JDL. I have been keeping up with Jhipster Lite and read before it used mustache and I wanted to see how it was being used.

For now jhipster-generater and JDL is a better fit for what I am trying to do.

Do you guys have plans for supporting JDL in Jhispster Lite?

[DamnClin]

The discussion for JDL support: #2754

[octgsoftware]

Thanks. I am up to speed now.