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Problem with conditional rendering in Velocity

See original GitHub issue

Hi tipsy,

did you noticed that the following code:

#if($loginRedirect)
    <input type="hidden" name="loginRedirect" value="$loginRedirect">
#end

does not render anytning? Note that the previous code has been taken from your project https://javalin.io/tutorials/website-example. I’ve tested it and concluded that the #if block can render e.g. <p> tag, but not the <input> tag. It is clear that the problem is related to Velocity and not to Javalin, but I wonder can you help with this and probably update your project?

Tested with Velocity 2.0 and 2.3 and the result is the same.

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)

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tipsycommented, Jul 5, 2021

I don’t have time to debug that particular application, but I can give you a more general tip. It’s much easier to debug what’s going on with a template engine if you remove Javalin and the browser from the equation. Implement your own template engine method that just print templates directly to system out.

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tipsycommented, Jul 6, 2021

That is very strange, I would report it as a bug to Firefox. I’m glad you figured it out, I will close the ticket now 😃