On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Thomas Mortagne
<thomas.morta...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> What you need to keep in mind is that {{test}} is wiki syntax, it's
> not a Velocity/Java API. You print it with Velocity, you don't call
> it. So this is all text until the wiki parser parses it, to pass an
> array you need to serialize it with the right syntax.
>
> A good way to understand and debug that is to disable wiki parsing in
> your Velocity macro as in {{velocity wiki="false"}}. This will gives
> you exactly what the wiki parser gets in input.
>
> The problem you have in your example is that you end up with something like:
>
> {{test array=[Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3]/}}
>
> and indeed without "" the parser will start at first white space it hits.s/start/stop/ > > All that is mostly for Java based macros (1). One limitation of wiki > based macros is that they don't have any automatic parameters > conversion and they just get all parameters as String, then you parse > it in your macro content (see > http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13282). > > 1: http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ExtendingMacro > > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Personal <je...@abrightfamily.com> wrote: >> Is it possible to pass an array as a macro parameter? So far my attempts >> have failed. >> >> Macro code: >> #set( $a = $xcontext.macro.params.array) >> $a >> >> #foreach($i in $a) >> $i >> #end >> >> >> Page code: >> #set( $array = ['Chapter 1', 'Chapter 2', 'Chapter 3']) >> $array >> >> #foreach($i in $array) >> $i >> #end >> >> {{test array=$array/}} >> >> >> The array processed in the page works as expected. The array passed to the >> macro only prints up to the first space between Chapter and 1. I have also >> tried to enter the array as a string which passes the string but the macro >> does not treat it as an array, which doesn’t surprise me. The comments from >> Stefan and Vincent on >> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WikiMacroTutorial seem to >> touch on this issue but I do not understand the answer provided. Thank you >> for any clarification to this issue you can provide. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jesse Bright >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> users@xwiki.org >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
