Re: strict mode but ignore null

I am guessing that you can also install a reference insert handler in your
setup and handle null values there as needed.

Alex


On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Claude Brisson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I looked at the code, and, well, it looks like the strict mode is ...
> rather strict. Even quiet references will throw an exception if you try to
> access a property on a null object.
>
> The only thing you can do to circumvent the exception is wrapping the
> property use in #if() statements :
>
>     #if($nullobj) $nullobj.someProp #end
>
>
>   Claude
>
>
>
> On 06/12/2017 23:26, Veit Guna wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I would like to setup Velocity so that invalid (=unknown)
>> properties/methods are throwing an exception, but null values shouldn't.
>> And that per default.
>> I know that I could use quiet references, but I would have to think
>> about everytime, whether it could be null or not. Or use it all the time,
>> which I would like to avoid - since I'm lazy :).
>>
>> I activated strict mode which fails on unknown properties/methods -
>> which is good.
>>
>> But it also fails on something like
>>
>> $valid.nullPropertyToObject.validproperty
>>
>> What I would like is, that it doesn't fail because of
>> nullPropertyToObject being null.
>>
>> My basic idea around this is, to spot real errors like unknown
>> properties during tests.
>> I don't really care about actual null values/references - these should
>> be rendered empty in case of null during runtime.
>>
>> In my tests I assert, that the rendering basically works (all
>> properties/methods exist) and values are properly filled.
>> But I don't want (ever) to fail only because one property is null during
>> runtime.
>>
>> Is this somehow possible?
>>
>> I just upgraded to 2.0 hoping that this is handled more flexible now.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Veit
>>
>>
>>
>>
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