Wow, I cant belive I didnt know about that - thats pretty fricking
useful!! Presumably:
val count: Int = S.attr("count") match {
case Full(item) => item.toInt
case Empty => 5
}
Is the normal idiom?
Cheers
Tim
On Nov 27, 11:34 pm, Tim Perrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm interesting! This I'm not familiar with - I'll give it a whirl
> tomorow.
>
> Cheers, Derek
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 27 Nov 2008, at 22:11, "Derek Chen-Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > I thought that S.attr could already be used to get the attributes on
> > a tag. Am I misunderstanding what you're getting at?
>
> > Derek
>
> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Tim Perrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
>
> > Guys,
>
> > Im currently re-designing the whole bloglite publishing engine im
> > writing and one of the things im considering is how I could possible
> > extend lifts tagging mechanism so that users could decide on there own
> > dynamic content, rather than just have textile based articles.
>
> > For instance, a list of latest blogs on the home page of a site: this
> > might be a mixture of static content, and then the dynamic list of
> > course. My original plan was to provide a bunch of default snippets;
> > stuff like "list all the child pages of this page" type thing, but im
> > pretty sure that simply wont be flexible enough.
>
> > I know its very JSP like, but it does seem like we could add on
> > functionality for things such as deciding how many items should be
> > within a list. The programmer builds his app to say "heres a list of
> > articles", but surley, its up to the designer to decide how many
> > should be displayed on that page?
>
> > given this snippet:
>
> > class Articles {
> > def list(max: Int) = {
> > ... // fetch articles
> > }
> > }
>
> > that it would then be sensible for the designer to be able to do:
>
> > <lift:articles.list max="5" />
>
> > What is the feeling on this type of thing? I appreciate this could
> > well be abused, but right now it strikes me that there are lots of
> > situations where the designer doesnt have quite enough control over
> > the (presentation) logic without coding scala (altering the snippet)
>
> > Thoughts?
>
> > Cheers
>
> > Tim
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