Setting object variables

[Jeff Schnitzer]

Often time I have a complex object I'd like to break down in a template.  For example, a TicketModel might have an Organization, Event, Person.  For a variety of reasons mostly related to code re-use, I don't want to use expressions like ${ticket.event.blah} and ${ticket.org.blah} everywhere.  I just want to set a few variables like I would have done in Velocity (or JSTL or any other template):

#set ($event = $ticket.event)

#set ($org = $ticket.org)

#set ($person = $ticket.person)

The closest thing I can find in the cambridge docs is a:with, which means I have to do something like this:

<a:span a:with="ticket.event" a:as="event">

   <a:span a:with="ticket.org" a:as="org">

      <a:span a:with="ticket.person" a:as="person">

         ...all my code

      </a:span>

   </a:span>

</a:span>

This is really heavy handed and makes a big mess every time I want to add a new alias.  Is there some way to make a simple set-variable?  I've tried variations on <--$set but it seems to only handle strings and not object references.

Thanks,

jeff

[erdincyilmazel]

There is the set directive in Cambridge as well. I really need to get the documentation complete don't I? :(

<!--$set event = ticket.event -->

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[Jeff Schnitzer]

Ah, of course.  I had tried <!--$set with several combinations of quoting and ${}ing but never thought to just leave it without either.  Thanks.

Jeff