Can I use javascript variable in freemarker

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Gursimrat wrote:

Can I? I read some where that FTL is executed before the JS, so it is not possible?

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Hi Gursimrat,

It's not possible - freemarker templates are processed on the server-side first, before the page gets loaded on client-side

(javascript code gets executed only after the page is loaded in client-side browser)

--Jason

What kind of data are you trying to get through JavaScript? Perhaps there's another approach that could be used via Freemarker.

We are creating a search, where we are reading the parameter from the URL, can we feed that to FTL? That is, whatever the user searches, in a custom search.

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Gursimrat wrote:

We are creating a search, where we are reading the parameter from the URL, can we feed that to FTL? That is, whatever the user searches, in a custom search.

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have you tried this?

Returns a parameter set on the request, or the default value specified if the request parameter is not found.

Example

${http.request.parameters.name.get("page", 1)}

Ref:

https://community.lithium.com/t5/developers-knowledge-base/http-request-FreeMarker-context-object/ta-p/9323

if you want to use your javascript variable into freemarker, then probably you should use the endpoint feature

Create an endpoint

Try hitting an ajax call to an endpoint with the desired variable as query parameter

Fetch the parameter in endpoint and use it into your freemarker  over there. (The freemarker code that you wanted to use now should be in your endpoint)

Hope this workaround might help you.