#297 Invalid Parse Exception

[Richard Lam]

Am getting a ParseException when I don't expect any.

freemarker.core.ParseException: Encountered "</#foreach>" at line 44, column 1 in test.ftl.
Was expecting one of:
<ATTEMPT> ...
<IF> ...
<LIST> ...
<FOREACH> ...
<SWITCH> ...
<ASSIGN> ...
<GLOBALASSIGN> ...
<LOCALASSIGN> ...
<INCLUDE> ...
<IMPORT> ...
<FUNCTION> ...
<MACRO> ...
<TRANSFORM> ...
<VISIT> ...
<STOP> ...
<RETURN> ...
<CALL> ...
<SETTING> ...
<COMPRESS> ...
<COMMENT> ...
<TERSE_COMMENT> ...
<NOPARSE> ...
<END_IF> ...
<BREAK> ...
<SIMPLE_RETURN> ...
<HALT> ...
<FLUSH> ...
<TRIM> ...
<LTRIM> ...
<RTRIM> ...
<NOTRIM> ...
<SIMPLE_NESTED> ...
<NESTED> ...
<SIMPLE_RECURSE> ...
<RECURSE> ...
<FALLBACK> ...
<ESCAPE> ...
<NOESCAPE> ...
<UNIFIED_CALL> ...
<WHITESPACE> ...
<PRINTABLE_CHARS> ...
<FALSE_ALERT> ...
"${" ...
"#{" ...

at freemarker.core.FMParser.generateParseException(FMParser.java:4697)
at freemarker.core.FMParser.jj_consume_token(FMParser.java:4568)
at freemarker.core.FMParser.If(FMParser.java:1206)
at freemarker.core.FMParser.FreemarkerDirective(FMParser.java:2372)
at freemarker.core.FMParser.Content(FMParser.java:2618)
at freemarker.core.FMParser.OptionalBlock(FMParser.java:2786)
at freemarker.core.FMParser.ForEach(FMParser.java:1279)
at freemarker.core.FMParser.FreemarkerDirective(FMParser.java:2378)
at freemarker.core.FMParser.Content(FMParser.java:2618)
at freemarker.core.FMParser.OptionalBlock(FMParser.java:2786)
at freemarker.core.FMParser.List(FMParser.java:1257)
at freemarker.core.FMParser.FreemarkerDirective(FMParser.java:2375)
at freemarker.core.FMParser.Content(FMParser.java:2618)
at freemarker.core.FMParser.OptionalBlock(FMParser.java:2786)
at freemarker.core.FMParser.Root(FMParser.java:2958)
at freemarker.template.Template.<init>(Template.java:149)
at freemarker.cache.TemplateCache.loadTemplate(TemplateCache.java:448)
at freemarker.cache.TemplateCache.getTemplate(TemplateCache.java:361)
at freemarker.cache.TemplateCache.getTemplate(TemplateCache.java:235)
at freemarker.template.Configuration.getTemplate(Configuration.java:487)
at freemarker.template.Configuration.getTemplate(Configuration.java:452)
at com.tekinsure.collaborus.doc.gen.fm.StartupGenerator.main(StartupGenerator.java:30)

[Richard Lam]

Template used

[Richard Lam]

[Dániel Dékány]

You have written <#/if> instead of </#if>, hence the </#foreach> is inside the #else block, thus it's not expected there. <#/if> is treated as simple static text, so it doesn't cause error itself. (Always use # as if it was the first character of the tag *name*.)

Also note that #list and #foreach are the same... it's a better style to stick to one of them (#list is the "official" choice).