On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > On 05/06/2013 03:15 PM, Travis P wrote (with minor fix): > > Via web searching, I've found quite a few people reversing lists by > writing > > out loops. > > > > Seems to me, we should be able to something like: > > > > #set ($lst = ["a","b","c"]) > > #set ($revlst = $lst.clone() ) > > $Collection.reverse($revlst) > > ... <snip> ... > > You should use the existing SortTool tool. > > > http://velocity.apache.org/tools/devel/javadoc/org/apache/velocity/tools/generic/SortTool.html > > For security reasons, Velocity doesn't allow accessing raw classes or > instantiating new objects. You must always start from a valid variable > placed in the context. > > See http://velocity.apache.org/tools/releases/2.0/ for more details > about tools and how to configure them. >
Thanks Sergiu. I have written my own Tools. I was just wondering if I could use the VTL for more rather than diving down into my own tools for such basic stuff (and given that I found several other folks also asking this question, I'm not alone in that desire). I don't think the sort tool can be used for this, unless the list elements have a property which is the their own index (and I don't see that). I don't want to sort based on object values. I want to reverse the order of a list, independent of what any values may be. -Travis
