Use ternary operator in freemarker?

Question

I just want to do something like this:

Answer 1

This macro provides a more straightforward way to do ternary operations:

<#macro if if then else=""><#if if>${then}<#else>${else}

It's easy to use and looks nice and quite readable:

<@if someBoolean "yes" "no"/>

Note that it is @if - and not #if as in the built-in directive. Here are some more examples.

<@if someBoolean "someBoolean is true"/>  


<@if (someBoolean||otherBoolean)  "hello,"+user.name  1+2+3 />  


<@if someBoolean then="yes" else="no" />  


<#list seq as x>
    <@if (x_index==0)  "first"  "not first"/> 
<#list> 

For some reason you can't add parenthesis around nameless parameters, if they are non-boolean expressions. That could have increased readability even more.