Alrighty, I've implemented the support just the way I want it, and wondered if
I could contribute it back.
What I've done is created a new interface (ExpressionAware) which provides the
following method:
void evaluateExpressions(AttributeEvaluator, Request)
This is then called from AbstractAttributeEvaluator.evaluate(Attribute,
Request) which then allows the implementor to update expression values or do
set new properties etc. I've implemented this in the MenuItem class to replace
its values when called.
I'm yet to write unit-tests, I've tested with the MenuItem and it's working
perfectly.
You could take this further by instead of Attribute being wired into the
expression awareness in core, it could also implement ExpressionAware to
further abstract the expression evaluation.
If the type is enumerable each item will also have its expressions evaluated
(as is the case with MenuItem.
Patch attached
> On 7 Jun 2015, at 06:15, BR Brett Ryan (3456) <brett.r...@johnsands.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>
>>> I see that the MenuItem support is now in tiles-compat, is there an
>>> alternate (better?) way of achieving this?
>>
>>
>> Have you looked into the SimpleMenuItem code?
>> I'd take a stub at implementing what you need there from scratch – it's
>> pretty simple stuff there.
>
> I did, and was thinking about doing it, but I couldn't find what it was that
> performs the EL evaluation. I must admit, it was a Thursday afternoon and I
> was about to head home so I didn't look terribly hard ;)I'll give it a better
> look.
