Configuring your action to use the freemarker result type

• Freemarker views are rendered via the webwork result type freemarker, or by using the dispatcher result type in conjunction Webwork's FreemarkerServlet.

• We use the freemarker result type which is defined in xwork-community.xml, so you can simply use it like so:

<action name="test" class="package.Test">
    <result name="success" type="freemarker">
        /templates/testView.ftl
    </result> 
</action>

• Since freemarker is defined as the default result type, type="freemarker" is not necessary when declaring your action.

Property Resolution

• Your action properties are automatically resolved. FOR EXAMPLE:

${name} will result in stack.findValue("name"), which generally results in action.getName() being executed.

• A search process is used to resolve the variable, searching the following scopes in order, until a value is found:

1.) Freemarker Variables 
2.) Webwork Value Stack 
3.) Request Attributes 
4.) Session Attributes 
5.) Servlet Context Attributes

Objects in the Context

• Webwork objects added to the context

• request - the current HttpServletRequest

• response - the current HttpServletResponse

• stack - the current OgnlValueStack

• ognl - the OgnlTool instance. This class contains useful methods to execute OGNL expressions against arbitary objects

• webwork ? an instance of FreemarkerWebWorkUtil

• action - the current WebWork action

• exception - optional the Exception instance, if the view is a JSP exception or Servlet exception

• Jive objects added to the context

• JiveGlobals

• JiveConstants

• LocaleUtils

• StringUtils

• DateUtils

• SkinUtils

• Permissions

• IMSettingsUtils

• ActionUtils

• RSSActionSupport

• ViewCountManager

• CommunityUtils

• BlogUtils

• FeedUtils

• WikiUtils

• LicenseManager

• DocumentPermHelper

• MessagePermHelper

${JiveGlobals.getJiveProperty(?skin.defaultHeader?)?default(?Community Home?)}

• In addition, static models and enums can be referenced as so:

${statics('com.jivesoftware.community.action.CommunityAction').VIEW_OVERVIEW}
${enums('com.jivesoftware.community.SearchQueryCriteria$SortType').RELEVANCE.key?c}
where ) is replaced with ] and ( is replaced with [