Can I access by property names in Velocity?

Question

I got an example

#set($organizationId = $layout.getGroup().getOrganizationId())

can I rewrite it as

#set($organizationId = $layout.group.organizationId)

?

Will it be exactly the same?

Answer 1

Yes. See here: Velocity User Guide - Property Lookup Rules which states:

As an example, $customer.address, the sequence is

1. getaddress()
2. getAddress()
3. get("address")
4. isAddress()

To be more precise, Velocity User Guide - Case Substitution:

$data.getRequest().getServerName()
## is the same as
$data.Request.ServerName