Switch Case with Strings 

FreeMarker is a java based template engine for complex template processing. This requires the library freemarker-2.3.16.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using switch case with strings in FreeMarker.

File Name  :   /FREEMARKER001/config/switchstr.ftl

view sourceprint? 01 <#assign gift="Gold"> 02   03 <#switch gift> 04   <#case "Diamond"> 05     Found a "Diamond gift" 06     <#break> 07   <#case "Gold"> 08     Found a "Golden gift" 09     <#break> 10   <#case "Silver"> 11     Found a "Silver gift" 12     <#break>    13   <#default> 14     No Gift 15 </#switch>

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/freemarker/tests/SwitchCaseStringsTest.java  Author  :   Sudhakar KV Email  :   kvenkatasudhakar@gmail.com

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.freemarker.tests; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.OutputStreamWriter; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Map; import freemarker.template.Configuration; import freemarker.template.Template; import freemarker.template.TemplateException; public class SwitchCaseStringsTest {   /**    * @param args    * @throws IOException     * @throws TemplateException     */   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, TemplateException  {     //Get template from classpath     Configuration cfg = new Configuration();     cfg.setClassForTemplateLoading(SwitchCaseStringsTest.class, "/");     Template template = cfg.getTemplate("switchstr.ftl");          //Prepare data model     Map<String, Object> dataModel = new HashMap<String, Object>();          //Merge template and data     OutputStreamWriter output = new OutputStreamWriter(System.out);     template.process(dataModel, output);   } }

    Found a "Golden gift"