Thursday, January 15, 2015

How to display null as empty string with Apache Velocity

We used the following Syntax to display attribute's value in Apache Velocity.
$myValue


But the problem is that, we the value carried by the attribute is null.
Velocity is not displaying an empty string or "null",
it display the attribute name that is being used.

attribute: [ $myValue1, $myValue2, $myValue3, $myValue4 ]
value:      [ "First", null, "Third", "" ]
Output:   [ First, $myValue2, Third,  ]


To display the NULL value as an empty string. we just need to add "!" after "$"

attribute: [ $!myValue1, $!myValue2, $!myValue3, $!myValue4 ]
value:      [ "First", null, "Third", "" ]
Output:   [ First, , Third,  ]


Done!!

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