On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Jim Barrows <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the interest of cutting boilerplate from mapped objects, I would
>> like to get the display name from a property file.
>>
>
> So your replacing code boilerplate with property file boilerplate?  The
> boilerplate has to go somewhere, and abstracting things like this out
> doesn't change that.  On the other hand, if you have to l10n your app, then
> this works.
>
> What about turning it off by default, and turned on in Boot though.  Also
> it should probably use the existing method by default, rolling to the
> property file if it's turned on and it's not provided.
>

Yeah... I gotta say, the less stuff that winds up outside Scala by default,
the better.


>
>
>
>>
>> So I was thinking that it would be an idea to add a
>> MapperRules.nameToDisplayName such as this
>>
>> var  nameToDisplayName: ( Mapper[_], String) = (_,name) => name
>>
>
> A department of redundancy department approved name? :) *LOL*
>
> How about displayNameFromPropertyFile?  A little wordy, but it shouldn't
> ever need to be typed except to be overridden.
>
>
>
>>
>> This would allow me to do things like nameToDisplayName = (m,name) =>
>> S.?(m.getClass.getName+"."+name)
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> /Jeppe
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