Merci pour votre résponse. Yes I know that I am supposed to put the entity name there I was just being generic. I solved the problem and posted the issue on stack: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14650949/whats-the-meaning-of-within-a-variable-expression-in-freemarker
On 10 mars 2013, at 11:47, Paul Foxworthy wrote: > Hi DarkStar, > > Just in case you weren't aware, where you see <entity_name> you should > substitute the name of the entity you want, such as "Party". > > If you do a view source on the page in the browser, you might find that the > td with a class of dark-grid was rendered before the error occurred. This > would give you the value of the key variable. > > The basic approach of using groovy to retrieve some data and populate a > collection for use by freemarker is common. See for example > > https://fisheye6.atlassian.com/browse/ofbiz/trunk/applications/party/webapp/partymgr/WEB-INF/actions/party/ViewProfile.groovy?hb=true > > which is called from > > https://fisheye6.atlassian.com/browse/ofbiz/trunk/applications/party/widget/partymgr/PartyScreens.xml?hb=true#to67 > > Yes, Groovy is replacing beanshell and should be used for anything new. > > Cheers > > Paul Foxworthy > > > DarkStar1 wrote >> Bought the book (Apache Ofbiz Development) and going through chapter 8. >> When attempting to retrieve the data via the beanshell script: "data = >> delegator.findAll( >> <entity_name> >> )" >> The ftl generates an error: " Expecting a string, date or number here, >> Expression record[key]!"" is instead a >> freemarker.ext.beans.SimpleMethodModel The problematic instruction: >> ---------- ==> ${record[key]!""} " >> >> The following is the macro from the book: >> <#macro displayData data> >> <#if data?is_sequence> >> <#assign keys = data?first?keys/> >> <#else> >> <#assign keys = data?keys/> >> </#if> >> <#-- Header --> >> > >> <#list keys as key> >> > * >> ${key} > * >> </#list> >> > >> <#-- Data --> >> <#if data?is_sequence> >> <#list data as record> >> > >> <#list keys as key> >> > >> ${record[key]!""} > >> </#list> >> > >> </#list> >> <#else> >> > >> <#list keys as key> >> > >> ${data[key]!""} > >> </#list> >>  > >> Processed script: "${parameters.scriptName}" > >> <#if data?has_content && (data?is_sequence || data?is_hash)> >> > >> </#if> >> </#if> >> </#macro> >> >> On the off chance that there might be a problem elsewhere, I removed the >> section for displaying data and I noticed that the header were composed of >> the sql statements the delegator >> uses to retrieve the entities. I am very new to ofbiz and aware there's a >> lot of ground to cover, however this book is several years old and I'd >> like to know if there's an easier/alternate way to >> retrieve the data. I should mention that I use groovy wherever possible in >> my tests as the book suggests that this is the new scripting method to >> replace bsh (learning groovy at the same >> time also). >> I am working with opentaps 1.5 which I believe ships with ofbiz 10.x >> Thanks > > > > > > ----- > -- > Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd > http://www.coherentsoftware.com.au/ > > Bonsai ERP, the all-inclusive ERP system > http://www.bonsaierp.com.au/ > > -- > View this message in context: > http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Recommended-entity-retrieval-method-tp4639244p4639774.html > Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
