To be honest, when I found it worked this way I was a bit surprised and thought it was an oversight rather than intentional. I don't have a strong opinion on how it should work, just wanted to clarify.
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can see that it makes sense since no variables feels like the same as > all variables are empty. The goal is to print out the result of evaluating > the pattern if and only if all variables in the pattern are not empty. The > simplest use case is to print [ ]'s around marker names but print nothing > if there are no markers. There is no point in using %notEmpty if there is > no variables inside of a %notEmpty. So this edge case makes sense as it is > (to me). Do you see it otherwise? > > Gary > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 12:25 AM, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Currently, VariablesNotEmptyReplacementConverter will remove the text >> produced by the nested converters if none of the nested converters is a >> variable. >> >> Is this the intention? >> >> >> (It will also remove the nexted text if any of the converters was a >> variable that produced non-empty text, this is as expected.) >> > > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1617290459/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1617290459&linkCode=as2&tag=garygregory-20&linkId=cadb800f39946ec62ea2b1af9fe6a2b8> > > <http:////ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=garygregory-20&l=am2&o=1&a=1617290459> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition > <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935182021/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1935182021&linkCode=as2&tag=garygregory-20&linkId=31ecd1f6b6d1eaf8886ac902a24de418%22> > > <http:////ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=garygregory-20&l=am2&o=1&a=1935182021> > Spring Batch in Action > <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935182951/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1935182951&linkCode=%7B%7BlinkCode%7D%7D&tag=garygregory-20&linkId=%7B%7Blink_id%7D%7D%22%3ESpring+Batch+in+Action> > <http:////ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=garygregory-20&l=am2&o=1&a=1935182951> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >
