[jira] Closed: (VELOCITY-12) Access to public member variable of a class

["Henning Schmiedehausen (JIRA)" <de...@velocity.apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-12?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Henning Schmiedehausen closed VELOCITY-12.
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> Access to public member variable of a class
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>
>                 Key: VELOCITY-12
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-12
>             Project: Velocity
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Engine
>    Affects Versions: 1.1
>         Environment: Operating System: All
> Platform: PC
>            Reporter: Rich Doyle
>         Assigned To: Velocity-Dev List
>            Priority: Minor
>
> It would be nice if I could reference public instance variables in a class that 
> is put in the velocity context using a syntax such as 
> $theClass.instanceVarName.  I am aware that this syntax is used to reference 
> the getInstanceVarName() method of the class that is put in the context...maybe 
> a variation on the syntax could be used for instance variables.  I am also 
> aware that it is probably not good to expose instance variables as public, 
> however the classes I am dealing with are generated via a CORBA IDL compiler.  
> My servlet makes a CORBA call, which returns data in such an object (public 
> instance vars, no accessor methods), and it would be nice if I could stuff this 
> object into the velocity context and reference it directly in a template.  What 
> I have to do with the current implementation of velocity is wrap these IDL 
> compiler generated classes to provide get methods for the instance variables.  
> This is very easy, but adds up to a lot of classes that exist merely so public 
> members can be accessed via a get method.
> <bootlickingon> I evaluated velocity as an alternative to JSP for use on my 
> current project, and Velocity wins hands down, even given this 
> inconvenience.</bootlickingoff>

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