Re: Garbage or The Quest for the Perfect Template Language

[Christopher Oliver]

That's a problem with JXTemplateGenerator: it returns a raw 
java.lang.Class object from "java.util.Locale" which doesn't have a 
property "ITALIAN". I'll try to fix that so it returns a wrapped Class 
object that shows static fields as properties as in JavaScript.

In general, I think you're right, though, JXTemplate generator requires 
additional tags to support Number, Date, and Message formatting. JSTL 
has such tags. If I have time I'll try to add them.

Regards,

Chris

Ugo Cei wrote:

Christopher Oliver wrote:

By the way JXTemplateGenerator adds the capability to call Java 
constructors to Jexl, so you can also do this:

 <jx:out 
value='${java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").format(someDate)}'/>


OK, this works:

${java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").format(date)}

But this does not:

${java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy",java.util.Locale.ITALIAN).format(date)} 

and gives the following error:

The choice of Java constructor java.text.SimpleDateFormat matching 
JavaScript argument types (string,null) is ambiguous; candidate 
constructors are: (java.lang.String,java.text.DateFormatSymbols), 
(java.lang.String,java.util.Locale)

Problem with static members?

    Ugo