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Is it possible to have comments in the template editor?

I want to comment the template without the comment being visible in the generated code.
Of course, using the comment syntax of the underlying language (in my case Java) also works - but the comment is visible in the generated code which might confuse the other developers.

No, it is currently not possible to insert comments which only comment the template and are not inserted in the generated code.

As a workaround, the easiest way would be to create a function which always returns false. Then, create a context which calls this function in the selector and insert your comments there. You may want to use a different comment style to distinguish between generated comments of your target language and template comments.

That is exactly the workaround that we discussed here.

We created a function:

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templateComment(Resource)

Since practically everything is a Resource we can reference the function from any context in the selector.

Also useful to disable entire blocks in the template that are not yet working.