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Byron Foster commented on VELOCITY-692:
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This is probably a good opportunity to address the issue discussed in
VELOCITY-656, mainly removing the toString() call on objects.
What about, #if($obj) returns true if:
$obj is Boolean and is true
$obj is an instance of CharSequence and length() returns a non zero value
$obj has an isEmpty() method that returns false.
> have #if handle empty strings/arrays/collections/maps more conveniently
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> Key: VELOCITY-692
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-692
> Project: Velocity
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Engine
> Reporter: Nathan Bubna
> Priority: Trivial
>
> An idea from the dev list:
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> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I wanted to share with you a few ideas I have about new simple
> > improvements for DisplayTools. I should be able to make patches for
> > them if you are interested.
> >
> > 1. Add new method
> >
> > isEmpty(object)
> >
> > that will return true if the object is null or empty (for strings it's
> > zero length; for collections, maps and arrays it's zero size). This
> > should help with annoying null checks. (Probably a better place for
> > this method would be Engine, not Tools)
> yeah, not something for tools. would be interesting to have the
> Uberspect pretend that every non-null reference has an isEmpty()
> method, or perhaps just add 0-length strings, empty collections, empty
> maps and 0-length arrays to the list of things that #if( $foo )
> considers false.
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