Row highlighting based on Model Data using freemarker

I am using Apache freemarker for configuring an email template.Please find below the content of this template:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h4>Dear User,</h4>
<br/>
<p>You have added following items into cart</p>

<table>
   <tr>
    <th>Item Name</th>  
    <th>Item Quantity</th>
    <th>Item Price</th>
  </tr>
   <#list itemList as item>
      <tr>
        <td>${item.itemName}</td> 
        <td>${item.itemQuantity}</td>
         <#if "item.itemPrice > 40">
          <td bgcolor="green">${item.itemPrice}</td>
         <#else>
          <td bgcolor="blue">${item.itemPrice}</td>
         <#if>
      </tr>
    </#list>
   </table>
  </body>
 </html>

I have a CartDTO class which contains an instance field as below with proper getter/setter:

private Double itemPrice;

My email is getting delivered but without any body content.In my weblogic server log I am getting following exception:

Exception occured while processing fmtemplate:Syntax error in template "cartInfo.ftl" in line 22, column 26:
 #if is an existing directive, but the tag is malformed.  (See FreeMarker Manual / Directive Reference.)

I think the problem arises due to #if statement. I am unable figure out the exact syntactical error.can anyone has any suitable solution to this?

Solution

You better use gt for numerical comparison and don't use quotes (which will identify as string).

change your if statement:

<#if item.itemPrice gt 40>

Check freemarker's comparison:

For numerical and date, time and date-time values you can also use <, <=, >= and >. You can't use them for strings! Example:

<#if x <= 12> x is less or equivalent with 12

There's a problem with >= and >. FreeMarker interprets the > character as the closing character of the FTL tag.. , like in <#if x gt y>. Another trick it to put the expression into parentheses like in <#if (x > y)>, although it's considered to be less elegant.