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Posted to user@velocity.apache.org by Peter Harrison <pe...@nothingbutnet.co.nz> on 2004/09/13 03:36:57 UTC
Setting Null
I've been looking through the archives, and it seems that there is a roadmap
to have the ability to have set( $boo=null ) in 1.6. This roadmap was in the
developers list in January this year. The roadmap had 1.4 being released
ASAP, and 1.5 not far behind. Thing is that 1.4 was released in April, and we
havn't seen 1.5 yet.
We are very keen to see this new feature since this issue almost lost us a
major customer when statements printed ended up being sent to the wrong
people - rather than having no address printed (address was null in some
records) it used the previously set address. The developer responsible knew
of the issue in Velocity, but just missed this consequence in this particular
code. Its just not failsafe, and while I'm a supporter of Velocity this
single issue continues to be a problem for us even though we are experiencd
in using it.
Regards,
Peter Harrison
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Re: Setting Null
Posted by Simon Christian <si...@stoutstick.com>.
I will often use #set( $boo = false ) in it's place, which if you're
testing for the existence of the object ( #if( $boo )...#end ) works fine.
- simon
Shinobu Kawai wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
>
>>I've been looking through the archives, and it seems that there is a roadmap
>>to have the ability to have set( $boo=null ) in 1.6. This roadmap was in the
>>developers list in January this year. The roadmap had 1.4 being released
>>ASAP, and 1.5 not far behind. Thing is that 1.4 was released in April, and we
>>havn't seen 1.5 yet.
>>
>>We are very keen to see this new feature since this issue almost lost us a
>>major customer when statements printed ended up being sent to the wrong
>>people - rather than having no address printed (address was null in some
>>records) it used the previously set address. The developer responsible knew
>>of the issue in Velocity, but just missed this consequence in this particular
>>code. Its just not failsafe, and while I'm a supporter of Velocity this
>>single issue continues to be a problem for us even though we are experiencd
>>in using it.
>
> So how are you handling it right now?
> I can only think of making a tool that invokes Context#remove(String),
> something like
> public void setNull(Context context, String key) {
> context.remove(key);
> }
>
> Or an ugly
> #set ($null = $ctx.remove("foo"))
>
> Best regards,
> -- Shinobu Kawai
>
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Re: Setting Null
Posted by Shinobu Kawai <sh...@gmail.com>.
Hi Peter,
> I've been looking through the archives, and it seems that there is a roadmap
> to have the ability to have set( $boo=null ) in 1.6. This roadmap was in the
> developers list in January this year. The roadmap had 1.4 being released
> ASAP, and 1.5 not far behind. Thing is that 1.4 was released in April, and we
> havn't seen 1.5 yet.
>
> We are very keen to see this new feature since this issue almost lost us a
> major customer when statements printed ended up being sent to the wrong
> people - rather than having no address printed (address was null in some
> records) it used the previously set address. The developer responsible knew
> of the issue in Velocity, but just missed this consequence in this particular
> code. Its just not failsafe, and while I'm a supporter of Velocity this
> single issue continues to be a problem for us even though we are experiencd
> in using it.
So how are you handling it right now?
I can only think of making a tool that invokes Context#remove(String),
something like
public void setNull(Context context, String key) {
context.remove(key);
}
Or an ugly
#set ($null = $ctx.remove("foo"))
Best regards,
-- Shinobu Kawai
--
Shinobu Kawai(shinobu.kawai@gmail.com)
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