The expressions inside UI labels issue has been fixed in rev 674387.
--- On Fri, 7/4/08, Adrian Crum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Adrian Crum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Discussion: FreeMarker Nested Expression Support (or lack thereof)
> To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
> Date: Friday, July 4, 2008, 2:55 PM
> Currently, FreeMarker doesn't handle nested expressions
> very well. For example:
>
> <#assign var1 = "this is var1"/>
> <#assign var2 = "var1"/>
> ${${var2}}
>
> should produce "this is var1" - but it throws an
> exception instead.
>
> There is also a problem with handling expressions contained
> in a Map - as has been discussed recently regarding UI
> labels.
>
> I spent most of the day today looking through the
> FreeMarker website and through their source code. I
> don't see an easy way to fix the problem.
>
> Here are some options:
>
> 1. Leave a message for the FreeMarker folks and ask for
> better nested expression support.
> 2. Modify their source code to fix the problem, and keep
> our own version of the library (yuck).
> 3. Have FreeMarker render to a String, do our own
> expression expansions on the String, then output the
> result.
>
> If anyone has any other options, please let me know.
>
> Your thoughts and comments are welcome.
>
> -Adrian
