Re: List contents not loaded

Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 12:38:07 AM, krishnan.1000 wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to generate a postscript file using a freemarker. The list is
> iterated as such
>
> 72 560 moveto
> /rule
> (____________________________________________________________________________)
> def
> /y 550 def /x 72 def
> y -20 20 { x exch moveto rule show } for
> (<#list comments as comment>${comment}</#list>) rule stringwidth pop {
>  x y 1 add moveto show /y y 15 sub def
> } BreakIntoLines
>
> To set up data model. 
> Map<String, Object> root = new HashMap<String, Object>();
> root.put("comments", this.comments);
>
> The file does not load the list content at all.

I should work, you overlook something that is outside the quoted
parts. Are you sure you look at the proper output file, and that
root.put is executed before *this* template?

> But if I were to
> write to the file directly,
>
> BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("file.txt"));
> bw.write(writeComments().toString());
>
> where 
>
> private StringBuffer generateComments() {   
>     StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
>     buffer.append("/rule
> (___________________________________________________");
>     buffer.append("_________________________) def\n");
>     buffer.append("/y 550 def /x 72 def\n");
>     buffer.append("y -20 20 { x exch moveto rule show } for\n");
>     buffer.append("(");
>     if (this.comments != null && !this.comments.isEmpty()) {
>       for (String comment : this.comments) {
>         if (StringUtils.isBlank(comment)) {
>           continue;
>         }
>         comment = StringUtils.replace(comment, "(", "\\(");
>         comment = StringUtils.replaceChars(comment, ")", "\\)");
>         comment = StringUtils.replaceChars(comment, "\\", "\\\\");
>         buffer.append(comment).append("\n");
>       }
>     }
>     buffer.append(") rule stringwidth pop {\n");
>     buffer.append("x y 1 add moveto show /y y 20 sub def\n");
>     buffer.append("} BreakIntoLines\n").append("grestore\n");
>     return buffer;
>   }
>
> works. Is there anything that I am doing in the ftl file. Please help?

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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