Re: Create an empty java.util.Set in VTL

Not with the default syntax and context. If you can control the context,
you can put an utility that can create any type of collection: random
sets, linked sets, ordered sets, linked maps, ordered maps...

On 01/25/2018 11:30 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
> All,
> 
> If I want to create a new empty array/collection, I can do something
> like this:
> 
> #set($array = [])
> 
> If I want to create a new Map, I can do this:
> 
> #set($map = {})
> 
> Is there a way to create a new Set?
> 
> I'd like to use a set because:
> 
> 1. I want to use this object as a sort of scratch-area to know what
> work I've done before
> 
> and
> 
> 2. I'm going to be consulting it a lot using Set.contains(object) so
> something other than ArrayList/LinkedList will be much faster
> 
> Thanks,
> -chris
> 
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