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Google App Engine compliant variation of FreeMarker. FreeMarker is a "template engine"; a generic tool to generate text output based on templates.

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package freemarker.template;

import java.util.List;

import freemarker.template.utility.Constants;

/**
 * Singleton object representing nothing, used by ?if_exists built-in.
 * It is meant to be interpreted in the most sensible way possible in various contexts.
 * This can be returned to avoid exceptions.
 */

final class GeneralPurposeNothing
implements TemplateBooleanModel, TemplateScalarModel, TemplateSequenceModel, TemplateHashModelEx2, TemplateMethodModelEx {

    private static final TemplateModel instance = new GeneralPurposeNothing();

    private GeneralPurposeNothing() {
    }

    static TemplateModel getInstance() {
        return instance;
    }

    @Override
    public String getAsString() {
        return "";
    }

    @Override
    public boolean getAsBoolean() {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isEmpty() {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public int size() {
        return 0;
    }

    @Override
    public TemplateModel get(int i) throws TemplateModelException {
        throw new TemplateModelException("Can't get item from an empty sequence.");
    }

    @Override
    public TemplateModel get(String key) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public Object exec(List args) {
        return null;
    }
    
    @Override
    public TemplateCollectionModel keys() {
        return Constants.EMPTY_COLLECTION;
    }

    @Override
    public TemplateCollectionModel values() {
        return Constants.EMPTY_COLLECTION;
    }

    @Override
    public KeyValuePairIterator keyValuePairIterator() throws TemplateModelException {
        return Constants.EMPTY_KEY_VALUE_PAIR_ITERATOR;
    }
}