Linking variables to soy file

[Joshua McNeil]

Hi I'm new to working with Soy, and also Stash API, i've been trying to figure out how variable data is passed to a soy file. Particularly from java servlet to soy file. I'm looking at examples such as https://developer.atlassian.com/stash/docs/latest/tutorials-and-examples/decorating-the-user-account.html. 

In particular the line 

<h3>Hello, {$user.displayName}</h3>

I know that displays the user name but where is that User.displayname information coming from. The java file associated makes no reference to user.displayName. Any suggestions will be appreciated. 

Thanks

[Mibex_Software · Accepted solution]

Hi,

In the example you referred a context is built which is passed to the Soy file:

ImmutableMap.<String, Object>of("user", user)

user is of type StashUser. Objects that are given to the Soy template in this context are exposed according to the Java Beans standard. You can access a method X#getFoo() as x.foo and X#isFoo() as x.foo.

You can therefore just use user.displayName which is using StashUser#getDisplayName()  behind the scenes.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Michael

[Joshua McNeil]

Thanks, your explanation makes things alot more clear. So i I wanted to get information not only for just the user, but lets say project information as well, can i pass in a project type, as well as the user type?

[Mibex_Software]

Sure. As far as I know, you can use objects of any class you want as long as you provide the necessary getters to access its properties.

[Joshua McNeil]

Thanks, will try and let you know the results