[jira] [Closed] (FREEMARKER-75) New built-in ?as("variableName") to store the left-hand operand to a variable.

["Daniel Dekany (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FREEMARKER-75?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Daniel Dekany closed FREEMARKER-75.
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    Resolution: Duplicate

Closed as duplicate of FREEMARKER-21.

> New built-in ?as("variableName") to store the left-hand operand to a variable.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FREEMARKER-75
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FREEMARKER-75
>             Project: Apache Freemarker
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: engine
>    Affects Versions: 2.3.26-incubating
>            Reporter: Ondra Žižka
>
> When coding templates, one often runs into a situation like this:
> {code}
> <#if (foo.bar.baz.expensiveCall())!false >
>      ${ foo.bar.baz.expensiveCall() }
> </#if>
> {code}
> Solving it with currently available things is something like 
> {code}
> <#assign cached = (foo.bar.baz.expensiveCall())! >
> <#if cached?has_content() >
>      Hello, ${ cached }
> </#if>
> {code}
> In short, passing around the information that a value could not be obtained is a bit cumbersome.
> What I suggest is a built-in that would capture a value of an expression on the left to a new variable and pass it along.
> {code}
> <#if (foo.bar.baz.expensiveCall())!?as("cached")?has_content >
>      Hello, ${ cached }
> </#if>
> {code}
> The benefits is that there is need to compute the expression twice or do the assignment.
> Speaking of simplifying, the expression above could also be simplified by another built-in, a "reversed" {{then()}}.  (For that I will file another jira.)
> {code}
> ${ "Hi, "?if( expensive()?as("cached"), "") + cached }     // For conditional prefixes
> ${ expensive()?as("cached")!false + ", good bye!"?if(cached) }     // For conditional suffixes
> ${ "Hi, ${expensive()?as("cached")!false}, again!"?if(cached) }     // For conditional surrounding
> {code}
> The new {{?as()}} built-in could be also used for a more convenient way of assigning wile printing:
> {code}
> ${"Hi ${user}"?as("greet")}.
> ${ greet }, again.
> {code}
> I hope my explanation does make sense.
> Thanks for considering. 



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