Plugin Availability The Array Tool plugin is available in the blojsom add-on bundle. This is a separate download from the blojsom.war file.

Use of List and Extended List Tool plugins Please use one of the List and Extended List Tool plugins. The reason for this is that the classes supporting this plugin from Apache will either be deprecated or going away. The functionality in the List and Extended List Tool plugins covers all of the functionality of this plugin and more.

Availability

Available as of blojsom 2.25.

Description

This is a wrapper for the Velocity Array Tool where an object is added to the context so that you can work with arrays.

Installation and Setup

After downloading the blojsom add-on bundle, copy the blojsom-addon-plugins-{version}.jar and velocity-tools-1.1.jar file into your /WEB-INF/lib directory.

In your global /WEB-INF/plugin.properties file, add the following line:

array-tool=org.blojsom.plugin.tools.ArrayToolPlugin

You may then add "array-tool" to the end one of the flavor-based plugin chains. These plugin chains can be found in the individual user's plugin.properties file. For example:

html.blojsom-plugin-chain=...,array-tool

Usage and URL Parameters

There are no URL parameters to control the operation of the Array Tool plugin.

Context Attributes and Types

The following table describes the context attributes that are available and their associated type.

Context key	Input or Output	Type	Description
BLOJSOM_PLUGIN_ARRAY_TOOL	Output	org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.ArrayTool object	View the documentation on the tool for information on its methods.