Daniel Fagerstrom pisze:
Grzegorz Kossakowski skrev:
Daniel Fagerstrom pisze:
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Yes, but I really didn't get the idea fully. Now I think that it may
be just a lack of use cases for converter. Would you be so kind to
provide some examples how it could work in particular cases and how it
would be helpful for Cocoon developer?
Sometimes abstract explanations hide the basic idea, actually.
Didn't my examples from CForms and CTemplate below help you?
I had a feeling that there is much more besides Date/Number/Currency formatting but now I think that I was suffering from
over-generalization problem. The converter concept is that simple how you describe it but it's not wrong because it solves very concrete
problem.
Now I think that I fully get the idea and we can focus on discussing how to
implement it.
Anyway, say that you have a couple of dates in your model bean that you
would like to render on a web page using CTemplate. Then you currently
would need to write something like (haven't checked the details):
<jx:formatDate value="${myobj.startDate}" dateStyle="short"
locale="${cocoon.request.locale}">
for each date. That is of course quite OK to write, but it clearly
clutters the code, and it is not that obvious for a non developer. With
converters it would be more like:
${myobj.startDate#short}
and
${myobj.startDate}
Personally, I prefer ${myboject.startDate}#short syntax because choosing converter should not be part of expression (it would be hard to
distinguish where expression part ends and converter name begins in some cases). The syntax would also imply that conversion is performed
after obtaining value (object) by evaluating the exception.
Maybe, but in that case you have one way of handling formating for forms
and another way for templates. And you would need two configurations
instead of one. Also from a conceptual standpoint it is better to
separate the rendering part (template) and the model part (form
definition). See my abstract text ;)
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.cocoon.devel/42968 for more
about the model-rendering separation.
Yes, I understand it now.
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Grzegorz Kossakowski
http://reflectingonthevicissitudes.wordpress.com/
