Re: Handling null objects

Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.freemarker.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Friday, April 4, 2008, 10:45:23 PM, Daniel Dekany wrote:

> Friday, April 4, 2008, 7:53:48 PM, mateamargo wrote:
>
>> I haven't found in the doc how to handle the null objects.
>
> The Manual says that a variable whose value us null

"IS null"

> and missing
> variable is the same under FreeMarker 2.3.x. (This will be different
> in FreeMarker 2.4, however, where if you want to, you can tell the
> difference.)
>
>> I load from the database a user by its id, but it may happen that doesn't
>> exist. In that case, the "user" variable will be null.
>>
>> I wanted to evaluate it in a if:
>>
>> <#if user == null>
>
> That should be: <#if user??>

Sorry... mean to be: <#if !user??>

> This means "if the user variable doesn't exist".
[snip]

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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