freemarker should not just be for servlets, but any context where the

mir-template-generation environment needs to be used.

so i took the http-specific stuff out of mircoders.servlet.servletHelper.makeGenerationData
and put them in this helper class....

diff --git a/source/mir/generator/GeneratorHelper.java b/source/mir/generator/GeneratorHelper.java
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+++ b/source/mir/generator/GeneratorHelper.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 The Mir-coders group
+ *
+ * This file is part of Mir.
+ *
+ * Mir is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * Mir is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with Mir; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+ *
+ * In addition, as a special exception, The Mir-coders gives permission to link
+ * the code of this program with  any library licensed under the Apache Software License,
+ * The Sun (tm) Java Advanced Imaging library (JAI), The Sun JIMI library
+ * (or with modified versions of the above that use the same license as the above),
+ * and distribute linked combinations including the two.  You must obey the
+ * GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than
+ * the above mentioned libraries.  If you modify this file, you may extend this
+ * exception to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so.
+ * If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
+ */
+
+package mir.generator;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Locale;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.struts.util.MessageResources;
+
+
+import mir.config.MirPropertiesConfiguration;
+import mir.entity.adapter.*;
+import mir.generator.GeneratorExc;
+import mir.util.CachingRewindableIterator;
+import mir.util.ResourceBundleGeneratorFunction;
+
+import mircoders.global.MirGlobal;
+
+
+
+public class GeneratorHelper {
+  /**
+   * Method to initialize the basic generation values for templates.  Does nothing which assumes a servlet context.
+   */
+
+  public static Map makeBasicGenerationData(Locale[] aLocales, String aBundle, String aDefaultBundle) throws GeneratorExc{
+    try{
+    MirPropertiesConfiguration configuration = MirPropertiesConfiguration.instance();
+    return makeBasicGenerationData(aLocales, aBundle, aDefaultBundle,configuration);
+    }
+    catch (Throwable t){
+      throw new GeneratorExc(t.getMessage());
+    }
+    
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   * Method to initialize the basic generation values for templates.  Does nothing which assumes a servlet context.
+   */
+
+  public static Map makeBasicGenerationData(Locale[] aLocales, String aBundle, String aDefaultBundle,MirPropertiesConfiguration configuration) throws GeneratorExc{
+    try{
+    Map result = new HashMap();
+    MirGlobal.localizer().producerAssistant().initializeGenerationValueSet(result);
+    
+    if (configuration.getString("Mir.Admin.ShowLoggedinUsers").equals("1")) {
+      result.put("loggedinusers", MirGlobal.getLoggedInUsers());
+    }
+    else
+      result.put("loggedinusers", null);
+    
+    Object languages =
+      new CachingRewindableIterator(
+       new EntityIteratorAdapter( "", "id", 30,
+          MirGlobal.localizer().dataModel().adapterModel(), "language"));
+
+      Object topics =
+       new CachingRewindableIterator(
+         new EntityIteratorAdapter("", "id", 30,
+           MirGlobal.localizer().dataModel().adapterModel(), "topic"));
+
+      Object articleTypes =
+       new CachingRewindableIterator(
+         new EntityIteratorAdapter( "", "id", 30,
+           MirGlobal.localizer().dataModel().adapterModel(), "articleType"));
+
+      Object commentStatuses =
+       new CachingRewindableIterator(
+         new EntityIteratorAdapter( "", "id", 30,
+           MirGlobal.localizer().dataModel().adapterModel(), "commentStatus"));
+
+      result.put("commentstatuses", commentStatuses);
+      result.put("articletypes", articleTypes);
+      result.put("languages", languages);
+      result.put("topics", topics);
+      
+      result.put( "lang",
+                 new ResourceBundleGeneratorFunction( aLocales,
+                   new MessageResources[] { MessageResources.getMessageResources(aBundle),
+                     MessageResources.getMessageResources(aDefaultBundle)}));
+
+
+
+    return result;
+    }
+    catch (Throwable t){
+      throw new GeneratorExc(t.getMessage());
+    }
+  }
+}