Re: Dealing with reserved names

Thursday, June 1, 2006, 3:01:44 PM, Bruce Perryman wrote:

> Thanks for responding.
>
> It's a nested Map populated in java from a db resultset. One of the
> keys' name is 'default'. When I evaluate it, it is always empty
> (""). If the name is something other than 'default', I retrieve the
> value of the key. I'm assuming that the problem is that FreeMarker
> is confused by the reserved name 'default'. 

That name is not reserved in FreeMarker. (It's used like
foo?default('-'), but the possible words after the ? are specified by
the template language, so it's not like reserving them.)

> If that is true, renaming the key name would be a project. I was
> wondering if FreeMarker could somehow 'escape' the name 'default' so
> that I can retrieve the value associated with that key.

FreeMarker doesn't reserve any map keys. But to be sure that there is
no bug with the "default" key, I tried that and it works for me. I
guess the problem is rather with the data source that you use to read
the database. Or maybe simply the SQL statement is wrong.

> Thanks.

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany