Re: Error message

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 2:25:24 PM, Shervin Asgari wrote:

>
>
> On 09/06/2011 04:30 PM, Daniel Dekany wrote:
>>
>>> However, when I put something other than null in this object, I don't
>>> get any errors.
>>>
>>> Is this a bug/feature in Freemarker? Or is it something JODReports /
>>> OpenOffice.org doing?
>> It's a feature... As I said, non-existent variables and null-s count
>> as undefined values. FreeMarker will not make guess, like something
>> that's undefined is surely like an empty string or 0 or anything like
>> that. You have to provide a default explicitly, like
>> ${maybenull!"N/A"} or even ${maybenull!} which is similar to
>> ${maybenull!""}.
>
> I see.
> But what about nested objects?
> Like lets say a we have a Person object, which has a Child object ie:
>
> person.getChild().getFirstname().
>
> Lets say the child object is null, thus getFirstname doesnt work. How 
> can we model that?
>
> ${person.child.firstname!} <-- This didnt work, nor did
> ${person!.child!.firstname!}

${(person.child.firstname)!}

> Shervin

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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