[VELOCITY-618] Strict property and method references

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.6
• Component/s: Engine
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Byron Foster
• Created: 29/Sep/08 14:10
• Updated: 12/Oct/08 03:37
• Resolved: 12/Oct/08 03:37

Description

The given patch against trunk adds a new option 'runtime.references.strict'. When set to true, invalid property references will throw a InvalidMethodException. For example $foo.bar will throw an exception if the object contained in $foo has no such property as bar. Any kind of reference to bar will cause an exception including:

#if(#foo.bar)
#set($foo.bar = "junk")
#set($foo.getBar())
etc...