Free Marker: #else directive

Using #else directive, we can specify what to do when the condition in #if directive is evaluated to false.

 

Syntax

<#if condition>

  ...

<#else>

  ...

</#if>

 

welcome.ftl

<#if user.gender == "Male">
  Welcome Mr. ${user.name}
<#else>
  Welcome Madam.  ${user.name}
</#if>

Step 1: Define Model class ‘WelcomeUser’.

 

WelcomeUser.java

package com.sample.app.templates.model;

public class WelcomeUser {
	private String name;
	private String gender;

	public WelcomeUser(String user, String gender) {
		super();
		this.name = user;
		this.gender = gender;
	}

	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}

	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}

	public String getGender() {
		return gender;
	}

	public void setGender(String gender) {
		this.gender = gender;
	}

}

Step 2: Define ‘FreeMarkerUtil’ class that take model class and template file as input and merge them.

 

FreeMarkerUtil.java

package com.sample.app.util;

import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.Locale;

import freemarker.template.Configuration;
import freemarker.template.Template;
import freemarker.template.TemplateExceptionHandler;

public class FreeMarkerUtil {

	private static final Configuration FREE_MARKER_CONFIGURATION = new Configuration(Configuration.VERSION_2_3_30);

	static {
		FREE_MARKER_CONFIGURATION.setClassForTemplateLoading(FreeMarkerUtil.class, "/templates/");
		FREE_MARKER_CONFIGURATION.setDefaultEncoding("UTF-8");
		FREE_MARKER_CONFIGURATION.setLocale(Locale.US);
		FREE_MARKER_CONFIGURATION.setTemplateExceptionHandler(TemplateExceptionHandler.RETHROW_HANDLER);
	}

	public static StringWriter mergeModelAndTemplate(Object modelObject, String ftlFile) throws Exception {
		StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();

		Template template = FREE_MARKER_CONFIGURATION.getTemplate(ftlFile);

		template.process(modelObject, stringWriter);

		return stringWriter;
	}

}

Step 3: Define ‘WelcomeUserPopulator’.

 

WelcomeUserPopulator.java

package com.sample.app;

import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import com.sample.app.templates.model.WelcomeUser;
import com.sample.app.util.FreeMarkerUtil;

public class WelcomeUserPopulator {
	public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
		Map<String, Object> modelObject = new HashMap<String, Object>();

		modelObject.put("user", new WelcomeUser("Krishna", "Male"));

		StringWriter stringWriter = FreeMarkerUtil.mergeModelAndTemplate(modelObject, "welcome.ftl");
		System.out.println(stringWriter.toString().trim());
		
		modelObject.put("user", new WelcomeUser("Sailu", "Female"));
		stringWriter = FreeMarkerUtil.mergeModelAndTemplate(modelObject, "greet.ftl");
		System.out.println(stringWriter.toString().trim());
	}
}

Output

Welcome Mr. Krishna

Welcome  Madam. Sailu

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