[FREEMARKER-79] Introduce <#continue> to skip an item within <#list>

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.26-incubating
• Component/s: engine
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ondra Žižka
• Created: 02/Oct/17 04:41
• Updated: 02/Oct/17 04:43
• Resolved: 02/Oct/17 04:43

Description

Freemarker has <#break> but no <#continue> to skip items in a <#list>.

It has been considered few times, but seems it's not here in Apache Jira, so I'm adding it.

Copying the reasoning from old FM feature request https://sourceforge.net/p/freemarker/feature-requests/79/

In Freemarker you can use break directive to exit from a list loop: actually I would need a "continue" directive to go to the next item if some condition is verified.
EG:
<#assign seq = ["winter", "spring", "summer", "autumn"]>
<#list seq as x>
<#if x = "spring"><#continue></#if>
${x}
</#list>
This will simply not print spring skipping directly to next item.

Issue Links

• duplicates: FREEMARKER-37 ability to skip iteration in a list