does freemarker support show all variable in data-model?

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hiway picture hiway · Sep 26, 2013 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

I want to see all variables in freemarker data-model, just like struts2 debug tag to show value stack.

Is there a way for freemarker to do this ?

Answer

ddekany picture ddekany · Sep 26, 2013

There's no universal solution possible for that, but you can try

<#list .data_model?keys as key>
  ${key}
</#list>

This works if the data-model is just a usual Map or JavaBean, but for more sophisticated data-models it's up to the data-model implementation if it supports ?keys and if it indeed returns everything.

You also have the variables that you set in the templates, which can be listed like above, only instead of .data_model use .globals, .namespace (which means the current template namespace) and .locals.

You may also have Configuration-level shared variables, and there's no way to list those purely from FTL (you could write a custom TemplateMethodModel for it that reads Configuration.getSharedVariableNames() though, and call it from the template).

Of course, ideally, FreeMarker should have a <#show_variables> directive or something, that does a best effort to show all this... but sadly there is no such thing yet.

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