Hi list, I've got a question on how to handle "beans" (ie java object with getters) that implement the List interface. Apologies if this has already been asked, or improved in future versions. Details follow:
I'm using freemarker freemarker-2.3.21.jar and the default object wrapper to display results from Solr using their java API (Solrj). They use a Java Object extending ArrayList: https://lucene.apache.org/solr/6_0_0/solr-solrj/org/apache/solr/common/SolrDocumentList.html So this object is a list of results with additional methods like getNumFound() This doesn't play nice with freemarker because the object can't be used as a hash and as a sequence at the same time in the following manner: ``` Found ${solrDocumentList.numFound} results <#list solrDocumentList as solrDocument} ${solrDocument.title} </#list> ``` I also tried solrDocumentList.getNumFound() but this (logically) doesn't work because the sequencewrapper doesn't expose the methods of the underlying sequence. Is there a standard way to nicely deal with this kind of objects ? Are there plans to add ways to do this ? Thanks in advance, Jon ps: I ended up writing boilerplate code that wraps their object, and it's really clumsy. ps2: I think that inheriting from ArrayList like this is a very bad practice and that composition would allow far greater flexibiliy, but that's just how the Solrj folks designed their API. Jon
