+1 vote for the following. If we modularize, we can
probably even stay "API-compatible" with the old.
> I think it was suggested to use tags inside the
> column tag body for
> "decorating". To support this the new design should
> make the current row
> available as a scripting variable and/or a scoped
> variable. Then you could
> decorate using JSP. For example, say you want to
> format a column as a
> currency. Assuming the scoped variable for the
> current iteration is set by
> the var attribute (following JSTL convention), then
> we could do something
> like this.
>
> <display:table var="row" ...>
> <display:column property="salary">
> <fmt:formatNumber type="currency"
> value="${row.salary}"/>
> </display:column>
> <display:column property="hireDate">
> <fmt:formatDate value="${row.hireDate}"/>
> </display:column>
> ...
> </display:table>
>
> Perhaps it would be good to also define a scoped
> variable for the current
> field. This would require collaboration between the
> table and column tags.
> But the benefit would be not having to indicate the
> actual property name of
> the current row. This example assumes the colVar
> attribute of table defines
> the name of the scoped variable for the current
> field.
>
> <display:table var="row" colVar="field" ...>
> <display:column property="salary">
> <fmt:formatNumber type="currency"
> value="${field}"/>
> </display:column>
> <display:column property="hireDate">
> <fmt:formatDate value="${field}"/>
> </display:column>
> ...
> </display:table>
>
> We should also get rid of the display.properties
> file and instead do these
> type of settings the JSP way too.
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