[jira] Commented: (VELOCITY-739) Do not throw exception for quiet references in strict reference checking mode

["Will Glass-Husain (JIRA)" <de...@velocity.apache.org>]

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Will Glass-Husain commented on VELOCITY-739:
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In the interests of conservatism, I'm going to leave this alone.    If more people want it speak up.

> Do not throw exception for quiet references in strict reference checking mode
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: VELOCITY-739
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-739
>             Project: Velocity
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Engine
>    Affects Versions: 1.6.2
>            Reporter: Will Glass-Husain
>
> I used strict reference checking for the first time and discovered that it throws exceptions even for quiet references.
> <input class="signupInput" type="text" id="StxtFirstNames"
> name="firstName" value="$!user.firstName"/>
> org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Variable
> $user has not been set at layout/slide_login.vm[line 13, column 117]
> This doesn't make sense to me.  If a template author designates a reference as quiet, it's explicitly not an error.  We're preventing the use of this convenient feature.
> It's not a hard change to fix this.  Does it break backwards compatibility if we change this?
> Incidentally, there's an identical problem for InvalidReferenceEventHandler.  I'll file a separate issue.

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