Re: instanceOf and/or isAssignableFrom operator in freemarker

Attila Szegedi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.freemarker.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2009.04.23., at 13:07, Daniel Dekany wrote:

> Actually, Attila, can't BeansWrapper already do that? I don't know...

When the objects are exposed through BeansWrapper, it is indeed  
possible to access the class of the object using either obj.class or  
obj.getClass(), so you can call instanceOf and isAssignableFrom on them.

The thing that's not trivially possible is to obtain an arbitrary  
Class object given its name...

Attila.

> I guess it should be able to, given it *is* for exposing Java object
> as-is (OK, with some security restrictions and like, but you get what
> I mean), and the class is a quite important information for Java
> classes, given that in the Java world duck-typing and like is at best
> rare.
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Daniel Dekany

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