On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen <je...@ingolfs.dk>wrote:
> David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > If the mechanism was something more along the lines of:
> >
> > display name calculator: (Mapper[_], Locale, String) => Box[String] // we
> > could use Lift's factory mechanism here
>
> I'm completely blank as to the factory mechanism, but this might be a
> good excuse to get started :-) Do you mean something like this in
> MapperRules:
>
> val displayNameCalculator: FactoryMaker[(Mapper[_], Locale, String) =>
> Box[String]] = new FactoryMaker((_,_,_) => Empty) {}
>
>
Yeah.
> Is there a need for the Boxed return type? Seems cleaner to just return
> the passed name. But either is fine with me :-)
>
>
> > Then you have lots of room to keep the current implementation as the
> default
> > if there is no actual name calculated. Further, the calculation is not
> > based on the currently logged in user, so you could cache the results (or
> > not if you're in development mode).
>
> I assume in the implementation that Mapper would have to use S.locale to
> supply the locale? Or should this also be abstracted?
>
S.locale is just fine.
>
> > My issue is that I like to not push functions like this towards external
> > files, but allow external files (and other resources) to be consulted
> > depending on the localization mechanism chosen for the given project.
>
> Not sure I understand this correctly (probably a language thing :-) Do
> you mean that you don't like to have this hard coded to e.g. S.?() or
> more that the config hooks should provide enough parameters that you're
> free to choose something other than S.?()
>
Both.
>
> I think my original proposal solved the former, but probably (due to
> lack of locale) not the latter.
>
> /Jeppe
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