Question

I am using Velocity Templating Language and currently have:

#set ( $stringList = $string.split(",") )

which works fine and splits the string up using a ‘,’ as a delimiter as expected.

My question is how do i now access each of the elements in the $stringList?

I have tried:

$stringList.get(0)
$stringList[0]
$stringList.[0]
${stringList}.get(0)

I am using Velocity in JIRA and JIRA happens to use Velocity version 1.4 which apparently doesn’t have support for accessing arrays as tried above.

Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

It works when I convert the array to a List using Arrays.asList() and then use methods from List to access elements.

I add the following to the context:

context.put("arrays", Arrays.class);

In velocity template I use:

#set ( $array = $getarray.getArray() )

$arrays.asList($array).get(0)

With a String-Array as follows

new String[] {"test1", "test2", "test3", "test4"};

I get the expected output:

test1