TemplateScalarModel (FreeMarker 2.3.23 API)

All Superinterfaces:

TemplateModel

All Known Implementing Classes:

CollectionModel, JythonHashModel, JythonModel, JythonNumberModel, JythonSequenceModel, LocalizedString, MapModel, NodeListModel, NodeListModel, ResourceBundleLocalizedString, RhinoFunctionModel, RhinoScriptableModel, SimpleScalar, StringModel
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public interface TemplateScalarModel
extends TemplateModel
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"string" template language data-type; like in Java, an unmodifiable UNICODE character sequence. (The name of this interface should be TemplateStringModel. The misnomer is inherited from the old times, when this was the only single-value type in FreeMarker.)

- Field Summary
  
  Fields
  Modifier and Type Field Description
  
  static TemplateModel EMPTY_STRING
  A constant value to use as the empty string.
  - Fields inherited from interface freemarker.template.TemplateModel
    NOTHING
- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  String getAsString()
  Returns the string representation of this model.

- Field Detail
  - EMPTY_STRING
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static final TemplateModel EMPTY_STRING
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    A constant value to use as the empty string.
- Method Detail
  - getAsString
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String getAsString()
            throws TemplateModelException
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    Returns the string representation of this model. Don't return null, as that will cause exception. (In classic-compatible mode the engine will convert null into empty string, though.)
    
    Throws:
    
    TemplateModelException