FMPP: How to set a Freemarker variable from a BeanShell script

Question

Is it possible to set one or more freemarker variable in a case like:

<#assign test=pp.loadData('eval', '
a="test1";
b="test2";
return "test";')>

and having access to a and b in the freemarker script ?

Answer 1

I guess it can't be done without writing a custom DataLoader. I'm saying "guess" because maybe I don't know about a BeanShell trick. The closest I could get is using return this.namespace; and then ${test.getVariable('a')}. This is too verbose of course.

Update: Actually, the following horror is even closer:

<#assign test=pp.loadData('eval', '
    a="test1";
    b="test2";

    // This should be factored out into a common function somehow
    ns = this.namespace;
    vars = new HashMap();
    for (name : ns.getVariableNames()) {
      vars.put(name, ns.getVariable(name));
    }
    return vars;
')>

${test.a}