Advanced Control Flow - Velocity

If called from a Flowscript, the Cocoon Velocity Generator provides access to the immediate properties of the context object passed to cocoon.sendPage and cocoon.sendPageAndWait. In addition, the current WebContinuation is also available as a variable named $continuation. You would typically access its id:

 <form action="$continuation.id">

You can also reach previous continuations by using the getParent() function:

 <form action="$continuation.getParent().id" >

In addition the following implicit objects are always available in the Velocity context:

• Request $request : The current Cocoon request
• Response $response : The Cocoon response associated with the current request
• Session $session : The Cocoon session associated with the current request
• Context $context : The Cocoon context associated with the current request
• org.apache.avalon.framework.parameters.Parameters $parameters : Any parameters passed to the generator in the pipeline

Cocoon installs a Velocity introspector that makes it possible for you to access JavaScript objects and arrays in your templates, as well as Java objects. For example, assuming you had a Flowscript like this:

 sendPage("myTemplate.vm", {colors: ["red", "blue", "yellow"]});

You could do this in myTemplate.vm:

 <select name="colors">
 #foreach ($color in $colors) 
 <option value="$color">$color</option>
 #end
 </select>