A few months ago I had the same problem and every library I found provides too much functionality and complexity for my final goal. So I end up developing my own library - HtmlFlow - that provides a very simple and intuitive API that allows me to write HTML in a fluent style. Check it here: https://github.com/fmcarvalho/HtmlFlow (it also supports dynamic binding to HTML elements)
Here is an example of binding the properties of a Task
object into HTML elements. Consider a Task
Java class with three properties: Title
, Description
and a Priority
and then we can produce an HTML document for a Task
object in the following way:
import htmlflow.HtmlView;
import model.Priority;
import model.Task;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintStream;
public class App {
private static HtmlView<Task> taskDetailsView(){
HtmlView<Task> taskView = new HtmlView<>();
taskView
.head()
.title("Task Details")
.linkCss("https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css");
taskView
.body().classAttr("container")
.heading(1, "Task Details")
.hr()
.div()
.text("Title: ").text(Task::getTitle)
.br()
.text("Description: ").text(Task::getDescription)
.br()
.text("Priority: ").text(Task::getPriority);
return taskView;
}
public static void main(String [] args) throws IOException{
HtmlView<Task> taskView = taskDetailsView();
Task task = new Task("Special dinner", "Have dinner with someone!", Priority.Normal);
try(PrintStream out = new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream("Task.html"))){
taskView.setPrintStream(out).write(task);
Desktop.getDesktop().browse(URI.create("Task.html"));
}
}
}