Re: Can dereferencing semantics be disabled?

Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 10:13:20 PM, kbutler wrote:

> Hi - this is a silly question and I apologize in advance, but I must ask it.
>
> I know that the "." character is a dereferencing operator when used in a
> variable name;
>
> for example
>     ${employee.id)
>
> I believe translates to 
>     employee.getId()  (more or less)
>
> as it would in OGNL.   
>
> Is it possible to either disable this dereferencing and treat token
> 'employee.id'  as a simple, unparsed variable name, OR to change the "."
> syntax to some other character? 

No, not without modifying the source code of FreeMarker.

Unless, you write a TemplateLoader that does the necessary source code
transformations (foo.bar to .vars["foo.bar"]), but that's not just
some kind of simple search-and-replace, as it has to understand the
syntax somewhat. Also then the error messages would still use the
original FreeMarker syntax, and displaced column numbers.

> Thanks - 
> Kent

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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