Rendering a Template using API

Canvas Technology platform provides a mechanism to render templates (CTTPL files) using the Template Manager's API. The Template Manager is responsible for creating, loading, and processing all the template files.

The Template Manager's createTemplate method (API) enables you to render any template on to an object. The createTemplate API takes the following parameters:

Parameter	Data Type	Mandatory or Optional	Description
TemplateUrls	String	Mandatory	This parameter denotes the template URLs or the file names, which can be a string or an array of URLs.
tmplParams	String	Optional	This optional parameter denotes the template parameters or input object, which can be an array of values to be passed to the place holders of the templates. An empty object can also be passed as the parameter.
basePath	String	Optional	This optional parameter denotes the template URLs or the template path. An empty object can be passed as the parameter.

The createTemplate API returns the new instance of the Template Manager class.

Sample usage of the createTemplate API for application layout is as follows:

var tmpLayer = canvas.templateManager.createTemplate('al-app-footer.cttpl',AppFooter,canvas.util.getFWTemplatePath());
tmpLayer.getTemplate(this.applyTemplate, this);

/* Here,
*  'al-app-footer.cttpl' is the template file.
*  'AppFooter' is the template parameter. 
*  'canvas.util.getFWTemplatePath' is the function that fetches the template path.
*  'getTemplate' method is intended to execute the callback function with the compiled 
*  template in the scope passed as input.
*/