## groovy.text
Class TemplateEngine

    java.lang.Object
      groovy.text.TemplateEngine

Direct Known Subclasses:
  GStringTemplateEngine, SimpleTemplateEngine, XmlTemplateEngine

    public abstract class TemplateEngine

extends Object

Represents an API to any template engine which is basically a factory of Template instances from a given text input.

Author:
  sam

Constructor Summary
`TemplateEngine()`

Method Summary
`Template` `createTemplate(File file)`
`abstract Template` `createTemplate(Reader reader)`
`Template` `createTemplate(String templateText)`
`Template` `createTemplate(URL url)`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### TemplateEngine

    public TemplateEngine()

Method Detail

### createTemplate

    public abstract Template createTemplate(Reader reader)
                                     throws CompilationFailedException,
                                            ClassNotFoundException,
                                            IOException

  Throws:
    `CompilationFailedException`
    `ClassNotFoundException`
    `IOException`

### createTemplate

    public Template createTemplate(String templateText)
                            throws CompilationFailedException,
                                   ClassNotFoundException,
                                   IOException

  Throws:
    `CompilationFailedException`
    `ClassNotFoundException`
    `IOException`

### createTemplate

    public Template createTemplate(File file)
                            throws CompilationFailedException,
                                   ClassNotFoundException,
                                   IOException

  Throws:
    `CompilationFailedException`
    `ClassNotFoundException`
    `IOException`

### createTemplate

    public Template createTemplate(URL url)
                            throws CompilationFailedException,
                                   ClassNotFoundException,
                                   IOException

  Throws:
    `CompilationFailedException`
    `ClassNotFoundException`
    `IOException`

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