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package freemarker.core;

import freemarker.template.TemplateException;

A subclass of TemplateException that says that an FTL expression has evaluated to null or it refers to something that doesn't exist. At least in FreeMarker 2.3.x these two cases aren't distinguished.
/** * A subclass of {@link TemplateException} that says that an FTL expression has evaluated to {@code null} or it refers * to something that doesn't exist. At least in FreeMarker 2.3.x these two cases aren't distinguished. */
public class InvalidReferenceException extends TemplateException { static final InvalidReferenceException FAST_INSTANCE; static { Environment prevEnv = Environment.getCurrentEnvironment(); try { Environment.setCurrentEnvironment(null); FAST_INSTANCE = new InvalidReferenceException( "Invalid reference. Details are unavilable, as this should have been handled by an FTL construct. " + "If it wasn't, that's problably a bug in FreeMarker.", null); } finally { Environment.setCurrentEnvironment(prevEnv); } } private static final Object[] TIP = { "If the failing expression is known to legally refer to something that's sometimes null or missing, " + "either specify a default value like myOptionalVar!myDefault, or use ", "<#if myOptionalVar??>", "when-present", "<#else>", "when-missing", "</#if>", ". (These only cover the last step of the expression; to cover the whole expression, " + "use parenthesis: (myOptionalVar.foo)!myDefault, (myOptionalVar.foo)??" }; private static final Object[] TIP_MISSING_ASSIGNMENT_TARGET = { "If the target variable is known to be legally null or missing sometimes, instead of something like ", "<#assign x += 1>", ", you could write ", "<#if x??>", "<#assign x += 1>", "</#if>", " or ", "<#assign x = (x!0) + 1>" }; private static final String TIP_NO_DOLLAR = "Variable references must not start with \"$\", unless the \"$\" is really part of the variable name."; private static final String TIP_LAST_STEP_DOT = "It's the step after the last dot that caused this error, not those before it."; private static final String TIP_LAST_STEP_SQUARE_BRACKET = "It's the final [] step that caused this error, not those before it."; private static final String TIP_JSP_TAGLIBS = "The \"JspTaglibs\" variable isn't a core FreeMarker feature; " + "it's only available when templates are invoked through freemarker.ext.servlet.FreemarkerServlet" + " (or other custom FreeMarker-JSP integration solution).";
Creates and invalid reference exception that contains no information about what was missing or null. As such, try to avoid this constructor.
/** * Creates and invalid reference exception that contains no information about what was missing or null. * As such, try to avoid this constructor. */
public InvalidReferenceException(Environment env) { super("Invalid reference: The expression has evaluated to null or refers to something that doesn't exist.", env); }
Creates and invalid reference exception that contains no programmatically extractable information about the blamed expression. As such, try to avoid this constructor, unless need to raise this expression from outside the FreeMarker core.
/** * Creates and invalid reference exception that contains no programmatically extractable information about the * blamed expression. As such, try to avoid this constructor, unless need to raise this expression from outside * the FreeMarker core. */
public InvalidReferenceException(String description, Environment env) { super(description, env); }
This is the recommended constructor, but it's only used internally, and has no backward compatibility guarantees.
Params:
  • expression – The expression that evaluates to missing or null. The last step of the expression should be the failing one, like in goodStep.failingStep.furtherStep it should only contain goodStep.failingStep.
/** * This is the recommended constructor, but it's only used internally, and has no backward compatibility guarantees. * * @param expression The expression that evaluates to missing or null. The last step of the expression should be * the failing one, like in {@code goodStep.failingStep.furtherStep} it should only contain * {@code goodStep.failingStep}. */
InvalidReferenceException(_ErrorDescriptionBuilder description, Environment env, Expression expression) { super(null, env, expression, description); }
Use this whenever possible, as it returns FAST_INSTANCE instead of creating a new instance, when appropriate.
/** * Use this whenever possible, as it returns {@link #FAST_INSTANCE} instead of creating a new instance, when * appropriate. */
static InvalidReferenceException getInstance(Expression blamed, Environment env) { if (env != null && env.getFastInvalidReferenceExceptions()) { return FAST_INSTANCE; } else { if (blamed != null) { final _ErrorDescriptionBuilder errDescBuilder = new _ErrorDescriptionBuilder("The following has evaluated to null or missing:").blame(blamed); if (endsWithDollarVariable(blamed)) { errDescBuilder.tips(TIP_NO_DOLLAR, TIP); } else if (blamed instanceof Dot) { final String rho = ((Dot) blamed).getRHO(); String nameFixTip = null; if ("size".equals(rho)) { nameFixTip = "To query the size of a collection or map use ?size, like myList?size"; } else if ("length".equals(rho)) { nameFixTip = "To query the length of a string use ?length, like myString?size"; } errDescBuilder.tips( nameFixTip == null ? new Object[] { TIP_LAST_STEP_DOT, TIP } : new Object[] { TIP_LAST_STEP_DOT, nameFixTip, TIP }); } else if (blamed instanceof DynamicKeyName) { errDescBuilder.tips(TIP_LAST_STEP_SQUARE_BRACKET, TIP); } else if (blamed instanceof Identifier && ((Identifier) blamed).getName().equals("JspTaglibs")) { errDescBuilder.tips(TIP_JSP_TAGLIBS, TIP); } else { errDescBuilder.tip(TIP); } return new InvalidReferenceException(errDescBuilder, env, blamed); } else { return new InvalidReferenceException(env); } } }
Used for assignments that use operators like +=, when the target variable was null/missing.
/** * Used for assignments that use operators like {@code +=}, when the target variable was null/missing. */
static InvalidReferenceException getInstance(int scope, String missingAssignedVarName, String assignmentOperator, Environment env) { if (env != null && env.getFastInvalidReferenceExceptions()) { return FAST_INSTANCE; } else { final _ErrorDescriptionBuilder errDescBuilder = new _ErrorDescriptionBuilder( "The target variable of the assignment, ", new _DelayedJQuote(missingAssignedVarName), ", was null or missing in the " + Assignment.scopeAsString(scope) + ", and the \"", assignmentOperator, "\" operator must get its value from there before assigning to it." ); if (missingAssignedVarName.startsWith("$")) { errDescBuilder.tips(TIP_NO_DOLLAR, TIP_MISSING_ASSIGNMENT_TARGET); } else { errDescBuilder.tip(TIP_MISSING_ASSIGNMENT_TARGET); } return new InvalidReferenceException(errDescBuilder, env, null); } } private static boolean endsWithDollarVariable(Expression blame) { return blame instanceof Identifier && ((Identifier) blame).getName().startsWith("$") || blame instanceof Dot && ((Dot) blame).getRHO().startsWith("$"); } }