Re: How to modify macro paramater value and send it to another macro ?

Sunday, July 28, 2013, 6:24:39 PM, Albert Kam wrote:

> I would like to pass a hash to a macro, modify the hash's sequence
> value within the macro, and then pass the modified hash to another macro.
>
> I have put on a simple example to illustrate with 'non' freemarker comments :
>
> // try to add 'java' to plugins.tools sequence and pass it to @print
> // but still the plugins passed to @print doesnt contain 'java'
> <#macro printAndModify plugins>
>  ${plugins.project} uses <@printList plugins.tools />
>  <#local tools=plugins.tools
>   tools=tools + ['java']
>   'plugins.tools'=tools>
>  
>  <@print plugins />
> </#macro>

<#local 'plugins.tools'=tools> just creates a local variable called
"plugins.tools".

You can do this like:

<#macro printAndModify plugins>
 ${plugins.project} uses <@printList plugins.tools />
 <@print plugins + { 'tools': plugins.tools + ['java'] } />
</#macro>

-- 
Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany


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