FreeMarker & model

[jerseyrobot]

Regarding FreeMarker integration, the guide says:

Jersey will assign the model instance to an attribute named model.

This translates in FreemarkerViewProcessor to:

Object model = viewable.getModel();
if (!(model instanceof Map)) {
    model = new HashMap<String, Object>() {{
        put("model", viewable.getModel());
    }};
}
Charset encoding = setContentType(mediaType, httpHeaders);

template.process(model, new OutputStreamWriter(out, encoding));

I do not understand why non-Map objects are first wrapped in a HashMap, as FreeMarker is able to directly take in many types of objects.

Without this, if I use a POJO for example, I would be able to access the field foo directly in my .ftl as ${foo} rather than ${model.foo} as is the case now.

Appreciate your advice/comments on this please. Thank you!

[jerseyrobot]

• Issue Imported From: https://github.com/jersey/jersey/issues/3353
• Original Issue Raised By:@glassfishrobot
• Original Issue Assigned To: @mpotociar

[jerseyrobot]

@glassfishrobot Commented Reported by Revarye

[jerseyrobot]

@glassfishrobot Commented This issue was imported from java.net JIRA JERSEY-3081