Thomas Vandahl wrote:
Scott Eade wrote:
Is there any interest in a pull tool that provides various (admittedly
arbitrary) String related functions for use in templates?
Of course it would be desirable to have such a thing in the standard
distribution. Especially, because probably everybody wrote something
like this for their own purposes.
At the end of the day we are probably all going to have different
requirements. I just committed a small addition to turbine's
DateFormatter class, but my requirements may not be representative of
what others need.
Martin Lidgard's suggestion of Velocity Tools Generic Tools is probably
the way to go - he posted a response to someone's query on the user list
a while back that showed how easy it is to use these with Turbine:
you need to activate each tool in the velocity-tools-generic-1.2.jar by
adding a line in TurbineResources.properties:
tool.global.numberTool = org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.NumberTool
tool.global.escTool = org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.EscapeTool
tool.global.renderTool = org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.RenderTool
tool.global.sortTool = org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.SortTool
Seems trivial. This would provide for the escaping methods I have, but
interestingly VT GT doesn't seem to have any basic String manipulation
methods (not everything can be done in VTL). It could probably replace
DateFormatter really easily - in fact we should consider deprecating it
with this in mind.
We should probably try and add a few comments in the Pull Service
documentation on this for the pending release - I need to update the
UIManager reference to UITool anyway.
As we are at it, would it be interesting to add formatting facilities to
the LocalizationTool for, say, floating point numbers, currency values
and such?
And Dates. It looks like VT GT DateTool does this already, and
NumberTool handles the floating point and currency values. Try as I
might though, these things sometimes still need to be done outside of
templates, which is something the l10n service handles. Also, it might
be nice if the l10n service is a one stop localization shop rather than
providing three tools.
Scott
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