[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-496?page=comments#action_12450525 ] Will Glass-Husain commented on VELOCITY-496: --------------------------------------------
makes sense to me. if someone writes a patch ASAP (with unit tests), we'll put in 1.5. Otherwise probably 1.6. > Allow periods in references secondary keys. > ------------------------------------------- > > Key: VELOCITY-496 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-496 > Project: Velocity > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Engine > Affects Versions: 1.6 > Reporter: Claude Brisson > Priority: Minor > > This is a quite prospective proposal that emerged from a discussion in a > VelocityTools JIRA issue (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELTOOLS-69). > Its goal is to have the short syntax $map.foo.bar chek the existence of > $map.get("foo.bar") when $map.foo is null. > Backward compatibility is 99%, since it only breaks templates that rely on > $map.foo.bar being an invalid reference while having foo.bar as key in map. > The implementation doesn't look obvious, and we must ensure that there are no > other side effects, yet this behaviour can be quite usefull when dealing with > HTML field names that contain a period. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
