Calling class methods (static) from inside a velocity view page

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Blankman picture Blankman · Feb 24, 2010 · Viewed 22.1k times · Source

Can you call class methods from inside a view page?

Specifically ones that are not passed into the view?

In asp.net MVC I can do this:

<%= SomeClass.FixDateFormat(ViewData.Model.SomeClass.DateCreated) %>

Answer

Gus picture Gus · Feb 28, 2013

Since this came up in the top of my google search on this topic it seems like folks might like to see an updated answer when they get this on the top of their search...

(found this here: http://velocity.10973.n7.nabble.com/Use-of-static-functions-td15126.html)

in Velocity 1.5 or earlier, you can just use:

#set( $String = '' )
#set( $foo = $String.format('%.1f', $dataFedIn) )

because you can always call static methods on instances. :)

however, since there are some static classes of which you cannot create instances (e.g. java.util.Math), we added support in 1.6 for static class methods sans instances:

Java:

context.put("String", String.class);

Velocity:

#set( $foo = $String.format('%.1f', $dataFedIn) )

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