Re: Handling of optional data tree

The syntax for what you want is:


  (p.share.currency)!

That is, by default ! only guards the last step, but with parenthesis
it guards the whole expression inside.

Also, you should update FreeMarker. 2.3.21 already explains this in
the error message.

-- 
Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany


Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 4:49:04 PM, tim wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a data model of this kind:
>
> contract
> +contractParties
> +contractParty
> ++share
> +++amount
> +++currency
> ...
>
> I want to display amount and share for each contract party:
> <#list contract[0].contractParties.contractParty as p>
>   Amount: ${p.share.amount!}
>   Share: ${p.share.currency!}
> </#list>
>
> list creates a sequence and that's fine. If there is no contract party, this
> will just be omitted -> fine.
> But then I want to access amount anf currency of the share. This works if
> there is a share. It does not work if there is no share, though. If share is
> null/empty/missing, it creates an error no matter what I do. I tried
> ${p.share[0].currency!} and ${p.share[0]!.currency!}, but it does not work
> if share is undefined.
>
> Is it possible to either
> - turn off error handling for missing data model fractions or
> - ignore missing paths
> ?
>
> Thanks for your feedback!
>
>
>
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