[VELOCITY-443] Velocity 1.4 does not support Iterable collections.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.6
• Environment: Java 5
• Assignee: Nathan Bubna
• Reporter: Peter Lawrey
• Created: 09/Jun/06 16:56
• Updated: 09/Oct/07 15:36
• Resolved: 25/Sep/07 18:00

Description

In the new for loop in Java 5 e.g.

for(Object obj: iterable)

the collection iterated only needs to be of type Iterable

However, In Velocity a foreach loop must be either a Collection or a Map but cannot be just an Iterable.

Suggestion, support Iterable containers.