RE: order of the insertion - works for me

[Tim Colson <tc...@cisco.com>]

> Is it possible to retain the order in which elements where
> inserted into a map while this 
> map is being rendered by Velocity using #foreach?

I was about to jump in and say "no" as maps don't have order....but then
read a little further....

> I'm using LinkedHashMap when building the context, 

Seems LinkedHashMap is new in JDK 1.4 and is supposed to maintain the
order of insertion.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/util/LinkedHashMap.html

Cool and Interesting. 

I tried it out and it worked fine for me. :-)

Code/template/output below, using 
Velocity 1.3 released 
JSDK 1.4.1 on Winbloze XP 
and the VelocityViewServlet.

Cheers,
Timo


// TESTING CODE
ArrayList branchData = new ArrayList();
LinkedHashMap row = null;

row = new LinkedHashMap();
row.put("loan_number","123");	 //column 1
row.put("borrower_first_name", "Tim");//column 2
row.put("borrower_last_name", "Colson");//column 3
branchData.add(row); //add row to array list

row = new LinkedHashMap();
row.put("loan_number","456");	 //column 1
row.put("borrower_first_name", "Joe");//column 2
row.put("borrower_last_name", "Normal");//column 3
branchData.add(row); //add row to array list

row = new LinkedHashMap();
row.put("borrower_last_name", "Backward");//column 1
row.put("borrower_first_name", "Joe");//column 2
row.put("loan_number","789");	 //column 3
branchData.add(row); //add row to array list

request.setAttribute("branch_list", branchData);
// END TEST

--- template.vm

TESTING
<PRE>
#foreach ($rowhash in $branch_list)
 #foreach ($item in $rowhash)$item #end

#end
</PRE>
---- OUTPUT

TESTING 
 123 Tim Colson 
 456 Joe Normal 
 Backward Joe 789 

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