VelocityReport Plugin

Integers are not formatted (or rather they are displayed as plain integers). No one required this before.
If you try with a float, double or decimal this should work.

hm. But they are formatted by the default format, because I see 3,00 $... And I think it is useful to allow that. Image you have a bigger integer and want to have it as #,###. Then you have a year and don't want it to appear as 2.011.

Actually bigger integers should appear as-is (2011 will appear as 2011 unless you try to format it).
But you are right, it might be interesting to have them appear with a specific formatting.
Will see how to add that to next version.

I am still having problems with this. Now I have a double and do:

$number.format("#,##0.00", $position.nettowert)

what I get is

3000,00 $

However, if I do

$number.currency($position.nettoverkaufspreis)

I get

1.000,00 €

What seems fixed, by the way, is the open file issue with the latest release.

Where does the $ comes from???

Do you have used a numberFormat defaultParameter somewhere?

Trying to reproduce and I can't... would you have a sample of this behavior?

In your sample solution, add

context.test = 18687.876867

and in your testTemplate.html add

$number.format("#,##0.00", $test)

What I get is

18687,88 $

without making any further changes to your samples. BTW: This

$number.format("#,##0.00", 99.99)

throws a cantRender exception.

OK, so the $ is coming from the default format I set in the onLoad() method, that's fine.

Now, what is happening here is that Velocity is choking on the # signs: he tries to interpret #,##0.00 as directive.

There are ways to escape # and $ signs using \ so \# or \$ could be used in a regular text context, but here the problem is that if you use $number.format("\#,##0.00", $test) then you end up having the extra character in the output, for example \1 8687,88 (because the String is then taken as-is by the NumberFormat tool)

This is why it isn't working, and why you get a CantRender exception as well (you wouldn't have the exception it if you were to use $!number.format("#,##0.00", 99.99) but then 99.99 wouldn't be in the output at all).

A solution to this problem is to add a variable in your context which will hold the format, so for example:
context.frmt = "#,##0.00";
context.test = 18687.876867;

Then in the template you will be able to use:
$number.format($frmt, $test)
$number.format($frmt, 99.99)

Sounds logical, everything. I now provide several formats to any report via the context object and it works nicely that way. I think we should mention this in the FAQs maybe?

Patrick Ruhsert wrote:

I think we should mention this in the FAQs maybe?

Good point. I will add that. Thanks.