[keycloak-dev] Why do we use Beans in Freemarker templates?

[Bill Burke]

Needs to be cleaned up eventually.  Just a pain for documentation since 
the Auth SPI exposes it.

On 11/16/2015 9:27 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> It comes from the olden days when we were doing a SaaS solution as we
> wanted to reduce what was possible from templates.
>
> It makes less sense now, although can be useful in the cases when you
> need some logic or formatting, or the values aren't directly available
> from the models.
>
> On 16 November 2015 at 15:21, Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com
> <mailto:bburke at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Why do we use Beans in Freemarker templates?  Most of the information
>     can be obtained from Model objects.  Any reason Model objects can't be
>     accessed directly from .ftl files?
>
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