Re: Can freemarker use OGNL null value handling?

2007-07-07 Thread Fred Toth
Thanks. That was it! I must have been through the doc a dozen times, but I missed the '$' vs '%' issue. Thanks again. Fred Dale Newfield wrote: Fred Toth wrote: To be more specific: In jsp, you can do this: This works even when user doesn't exist because of the OGNL null value handling.

Re: Can freemarker use OGNL null value handling?

2007-07-07 Thread Dale Newfield
Fred Toth wrote: To be more specific: In jsp, you can do this: This works even when user doesn't exist because of the OGNL null value handling. If you use ${}, you're not using ognl, but rather el. Try replacing your $'s with %'s. -Dale ---

Re: Can freemarker use OGNL null value handling?

2007-07-07 Thread Musachy Barroso
If I'm not wrong (big if there :) ), that ${user.firstName} is evaluated as a FreeMarker expression (not a JSTL one), and FreeMarker is sensitive about nulls: http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/app_faq.html#faq_picky_about_missing_vars either use %{user.firstName}, or FreeMarker null operato

Can freemarker use OGNL null value handling?

2007-07-07 Thread Fred Toth
Hi, I'm a big fan of struts2 and freemarker, but I'm just now getting around to using the struts2 UI tags in freemarker. It appears that "automatic null value handling" feature of struts2 is not available from freemarker? To be more specific: In jsp, you can do this: This works even when