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Daniel Dekany commented on FREEMARKER-62:
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It works with arrays and anything that's wrapped as {{TemplateSequenceModel}},
but I got the point. {{Iterator}}-s aren't wrapped as
{{TemplateSequenceModel}}-s. Well, I guess to sort something you need to copy
it into an array (or {{List}}) and do an in place sort anyway. So why not, I
guess. (Though it will be funny that you can't call, say, {{?size}} on the
thing before sorting (because it's not a sequence), but after sorting you
magically can.)
> ?sort_by to accept Iterable
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> Key: FREEMARKER-62
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FREEMARKER-62
> Project: Apache Freemarker
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: engine
> Affects Versions: 2.3.26-incubating
> Reporter: Ondra Žižka
> Priority: Minor
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> Currently, {{?sort_by()}} only accepts a {{List}}.
> It's not complicated to create an {{iteratorToList() FreemarkerMethod}},
> though.
> So this is a suggestion to make {{?sort_by}} accept an {{Iterable}}, and if
> it detects it was called for Iterable and not a List, it would create the
> sorted list. It could use heapsort maybe.
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