Re: Parsing of numeric values

Daniel Dekany wrote:
> 
> Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 3:46:17 PM, wkbutler wrote:
> I don't know... it's not enough concrete for me to form an opinion.
> The part that is a bit suspicious for me, that if the numerical output
> generated by the 1st order macros meant to be treated as numbers by
> the 2nd order macros, then why are they in human-audience format? I
> mean, FM can output in computer-audience numerical format as well.
> 

Good question - consider the case of subtotals and grand totals. Grand
totals operate on subtotals, subtotals operate on 'raw' data. Both are
products for the user.  You allude to another possible solution though,
which is to store both formats; I would rather avoid that, but it may be the
easiest approach.


Daniel Dekany wrote:
> 
>> Do I need to revert my dataset to a Map<String, Object>, or is there
>> another
>> way to inject custom utilities?
> 
> There is a way (as far as using a global variable instead of
> data-model variable is fine for you). Use something like this instead
> of the myTemplate.process(root, out) call:
> 
>   Environment env = myTemplate.createProcessingEnvironment(root, out);
>   env.setGlobalVariable("util",
>       env.getObjectWrapper().wrap(new DataUtil()));
>   env.process();
> 

Perfect - I will try that. Thank you -


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