IContext (thymeleaf 3.0.12.RELEASE API)

All Known Subinterfaces:

IEngineContext, IExpressionContext, ITemplateContext, IWebContext

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractContext, AbstractEngineContext, AbstractExpressionContext, Context, EngineContext, ExpressionContext, WebContext, WebEngineContext, WebExpressionContext
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public interface IContext
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Interface implemented by objects containing the context variables needed by the template engine in order to process templates, besides other info like locale or (in web environments) Servlet-API artifacts.

Note a class with this name existed since 1.0, but it was completely reimplemented in Thymeleaf 3.0

Since:

3.0.0

Author:

Daniel Fernández

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`boolean`	`containsVariable(String name)`	Checks whether a specific variable is already contained in this context or not.
`Locale`	`getLocale()`	Returns the locale that should be used for processing the template.
`Object`	`getVariable(String name)`	Retrieve a specific variable, by name.
`Set<String>`	`getVariableNames()`	Get a list with all the names of variables contained at this context.

- Method Detail
  - getLocale
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Locale getLocale()
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    Returns the locale that should be used for processing the template.
    
    Returns:
    
    the locale to be used.
  - containsVariable
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boolean containsVariable(String name)
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    Checks whether a specific variable is already contained in this context or not.
    
    Parameters:
    
    name - the name of the variable to be checked.
    
    Returns:
    
    true if the variable is already contained, false if not.
  - getVariableNames
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Set<String> getVariableNames()
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    Get a list with all the names of variables contained at this context.
    
    Returns:
    
    the variable names.
  - getVariable
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Object getVariable(String name)
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    Retrieve a specific variable, by name.
    
    Parameters:
    
    name - the name of the variable to be retrieved.
    
    Returns:
    
    the variable's value.