Pippo : Locals

Locals are good for storing variables for the CURRENT request/response cycle. These variables are store in Response and will be available automatically to all templates for the current request/response cycle.

GET("/contact/{id}", routeContext -> {
    /*
    // variant 1 (with model)
    Map<String, Object> model = new HashMap<>();
    model.put("contacts", contactService.getContacts());
    routeContext.render("contacts", model);
    */

    // variant 2 (with locals)
    routeContext.setLocal("contacts", contactService.getContacts());
    routeContext.render("contacts");
});

where:

routeContext.setLocal() is the shortcut for getResponse().getLocals().put()
routeContext.render() is the shortcut for getResponse().render()

Another scenario for locals:

// filter that injects 'contacts' in locals and implicit in all templates
ANY("/contact.*", routeContext -> routeContext.setLocal("contacts", contactService.getContacts()));

// just consume 'contacts' in template 
GET("/contacts", routeContext -> routeContext.render("crud/contacts"));

The snippet for contacts template (freemarker engine) shows a list with all contacts’ name:

<html>
    <body>
        <ul>
        <#list contacts as contact>
            <li>${contact.name}</li>
        </#list>
        </ul>
    </body>
</html>

Pippo Micro Java Web Framework

Locals