Re: In VTL, simply reverse a list with java.util.Collection static method

http://velocity.apache.org/engine/devel/developer-guide.html#supportforstaticclasses

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Travis P <[email protected]> wrote:
> Via web searching, I've found quite a few people reversing lists by writing
> out loops.
>
> Seems to me, we should be able to something like:
>
> #set ($lst = ["a","b","c"])
> #set ($revlst = $lst)
> $Collection.reverse($revlst)
>
> where $Collection.reverse refers to the java.util.Collections static method
> static void*reverse<http://w3.hursley.ibm.com/java/docs/jdk5.0/api/java/util/Collections.html#reverse(java.util.List)>
> *(List <http://w3.hursley.ibm.com/java/docs/jdk5.0/api/java/util/List.html>
> <?> list)
>           Reverses the order of the elements in the specified list.
>
> but I don't see any way to do that without writing a custom tool.  Which
> seems heavy-handed for such a basic thing.  Am I missing something?
>
> (I'm using velocity-1.7, velocity-tools-view-2.0, running on tomcat-7.0.39)
>
> -Travis