I meant putting GenericEntity.NULL_FIELD in the map with the "null" key.
In other words, I am in favor of your changes. Sorry for the confusion.
-Adrian
On 5/21/2012 2:30 PM, Adam Heath wrote:
On 05/21/2012 07:41 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
That is an ugly workaround that I would like to see go away. Removing it
could potentially break a lot of things.
Do you mean that putting "null" into the context is an ugly
work-around, and that it should not be done, as I suggest? And are
you also saying that removing it would cause breakage on pages that
depend on "null" resolving to NullField?
-Adrian
On 5/21/2012 6:48 AM, Adam Heath wrote:
Why do SimpleMethod.java and ModelScreen.java both do
context.put("null", GenericEntity.NULL_FIELD)? That changes *all* null
values in freemarker into that static instance, even when the target
type of the variable is *not* going to be part of some entity-like map.
If I remove both of those calls(actually, remove one, change the other
to place it as "nullField"), then the broken ordermgr link given
earlier starts to finally work. And, I think that even the nullField
constant should not be removed, as NullField should only be used
internally by the entity engine.
