Performance enhancements.

 * Dealing with POJO data is way way faster.
 * Conditionals are now "compiled" for speed gain.
 * slice, reverse and get filters now work on STRING type data, not just LIST type.
 * Parens are now optional for simple if conditions.
 * TemplateConfig now easier to use programmatically.
 * Allows default extension of none to be set from config.
 * Easier to set arbitrary template folder.

ChangeLog.txt

@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
 Release History
 
+v3.1.0 - 2015-11-15 tmcclure
+
+  Performance enhancements.
+  slice, reverse and get filters now work on STRING type data, not just LIST type.
+  Parens are now optional for simple if conditions.
+  TemplateConfig now easier to use programmatically.
+
 v3.0.2 - 2015-10-30 tmcclure
 
-  Fixes bugs: looping over wrapped map, looping over POJO with null values
+  Fixes bugs: looping over wrapped map, looping over POJO with null values.
 
 v3.0.1 - 2015-07-16 tmcclure
 
@@ -98,18 +105,18 @@ v2.1 - New {$tag|filter(#x_template)} runs the #x_template snippet as
        Easier access to POJO attributes and bean properties:
          * chunk.setToBean('my_thing', someObject)
              copies someObject's public accessor properties to a Map
-	     so the template can do this:
+         so the template can do this:
                 {$my_thing.price}
              to get the value of
                 someObject.getPrice()
          * chunk.set('item', somePOJO)
              copies somePOJO's non-private attributes to a Map
-	     so the template can do this:
+         so the template can do this:
                 {$item.price}
              to get the value of
                 somePOJO.price
          * Map values seen by template renderer are a snapshot from
-	   time of first attribute access.
+       time of first attribute access.
 
 v2.0 - Refactored for 20% speed gain.
        New |type filter {$what_am_i|type} outputs one of the following:

README.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Available from Maven Central:
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.x5dev</groupId>
       <artifactId>chunk-templates</artifactId>
-      <version>3.0.2</version>
+      <version>3.1.0</version>
     </dependency>
 ```
 

pom.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <groupId>com.x5dev</groupId>
   <artifactId>chunk-templates</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>3.0.2</version>
+  <version>3.1.0</version>
   <name>Chunk Templates</name>
   <description>Chunk Template Engine for Java</description>
   <url>http://www.x5software.com/chunk/</url>

src/main/java/com/x5/template/Chunk.java

@@ -243,15 +243,15 @@
  * Updates: <A href="http://www.x5software.com/chunk/">Chunk Documentation</A><BR>
  *
  * @author Tom McClure
- * @version 3.0.2
+ * @version 3.1.0
  */
 
 public class Chunk implements Map<String,Object>
 {
     public static final int HASH_THRESH = 8;
     public static final int DEPTH_LIMIT = 17;
 
-    public static final String VERSION = "3.0.2";
+    public static final String VERSION = "3.1.0";
 
     private static final String TRUE = "TRUE";
 
@@ -1028,7 +1028,7 @@ protected Object _resolveTagValue(SnippetTag tag, int depth, boolean ignoreParen
         int segment = 0;
         String segmentName = path[segment];
 
-        if (segmentName.indexOf('`') > -1) {
+        if (tag.hasBackticks()) {
             segmentName = resolveBackticks(segmentName, depth);
         }
 
@@ -1058,7 +1058,10 @@ protected Object _resolveTagValue(SnippetTag tag, int depth, boolean ignoreParen
         // or path-map hits dead end
         while (path.length > segment && tagValue != null) {
             if (tagValue instanceof Map) {
-                segmentName = resolveBackticks(path[segment], depth);
+                segmentName = path[segment];
+                if (tag.hasBackticks()) {
+                    segmentName = resolveBackticks(segmentName, depth);
+                }
                 Map obj = (Map)tagValue;
                 tagValue = obj.get(segmentName);
                 segment++;

src/main/java/com/x5/template/Filter.java

@@ -71,28 +71,28 @@ public static Object applyFilter(Chunk context, String filter, Object input)
             return typeFilter(context, input);
         }
 
-        if (input instanceof String || input instanceof Snippet) {
+        String text = null;
+        if (input instanceof String) {
+            text = (String)input;
+        } else if (input instanceof Snippet) {
+            text = ((Snippet)input).toSimpleString();
+        }
+
+        if (text != null) {
             // provide a few core filters without making a whole class for each one.
-            String text = BasicFilter.stringify(input);
             if (filter.equals("trim")) {
                 // trim leading and trailing whitespace
-                return text == null ? null : text.trim(); //text.replaceAll("^\\s+","").replaceAll("\\s+$","");
+                return text.trim(); //text.replaceAll("^\\s+","").replaceAll("\\s+$","");
             } else if (filter.startsWith("join(")) {
-                if (text != null) {
-                    TableData array = InlineTable.parseTable(text);
-                    if (array != null) {
-                        return joinInlineTable(array, filterArgs);
-                    }
+                TableData array = InlineTable.parseTable(text);
+                if (array != null) {
+                    return joinInlineTable(array, filterArgs);
                 }
             } else if (filter.startsWith("get(")) {
-                if (text != null) {
-                    TableData array = InlineTable.parseTable(text);
-                    if (array != null) {
-                        return accessArrayIndex(array, filterArgs);
-                    }
+                TableData array = InlineTable.parseTable(text);
+                if (array != null) {
+                    return accessArrayIndex(array, filterArgs);
                 }
-            } else if (filter.equals("type")) {
-                return "STRING";
             }
         }