Re: Using JavaScript variable in freemarker

Hi anjibman,

> Hi All.
> 
> I have Java Date type field return from back end using jQuery AJAX. It can
> be access as like
> var accessDate = response.book.accessDate;
> alert(accessDate);
> 
> Since its value is in millisecond i need to display in webpage as
> mm/dd/yyyy. I didn't find easy way to do through JavaScript so I am planning
> to use freemarker date function something like
> ${response.book.accessDate?date?string.short}

Can you have the AJAX query answered by a Freemarker engine?

Your idea cannot work because by the time the browser runs the JavaScript code, Freemarker is already out of the loop and cannot do anything. 

> how can i copy JavaScript var to freemarker data-model to do date
> formatting?

The data-model is on the server and the JavaScript is running on the client, so that's not possible unless you use Freemarker with AJAX as I suggested above. 

-- Denis. 
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