I wasn't actually suggesting it my email, I was just lamenting the missing ?: operator. But I admit I've wondered from time to time why we didn't just use groovy as our expression tool, with support for categories, operator overloading and closures, I can't really think of anything that UEL can do that groovy can't.
Regards
Scott
On 1/09/2010, at 9:07 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
> From: "David E Jones" <d...@me.com>
>> I agree, Groovy is not just way better than BSH, but also better than UEL
>> too. It might be a bit of a pain to change now, but I
>> don't know. While designing based on the idea of starting over I was
>> planning on a move to "everything's Groovy" to use Groovy for
>> all expressions, scriptlets, and inline scripts and scripts in separate
>> files.
>
> Yes, I'd like it, more powerful, consistent and better syntax
>
> Jacques
>
>> Of course, that brings up the question... why not just use Grails where
>> every artifact is a groovy script instead of having some
>> artifacts as XML? Well, IMO for many things XML is easier and cleaner for
>> both writing and reading/maintaining. If you don't like
>> that, well, Grails isn't too bad as frameworks go... :)
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
>> On Aug 31, 2010, at 6:51 PM, Scott Gray wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds fine to me. As an alternative you can do something like this:
>>> <display description="${empty usage ? uiLabelMap.CommonNone : usage}"/>
>>> I know it's a bit verbose but it should also work. "empty" is a UEL
>>> operator that works in a similar fashion to Groovy's "Truth"
>>> boolean casting.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately UEL doesn't support groovy's elvis operator or it would be
>>> easier:
>>> "${usage ?: uiLabelMap.CommonNone}"
>>> or perhaps freemarker's default value operator:
>>> "${usage!uiLabelMap.CommonNone}"
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Scott
>>>
>>> HotWax Media
>>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
>>>
>>> On 1/09/2010, at 5:29 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Bruno,
>>>>
>>>> In such case I handle the field with set and groovy before in the
>>>> row-action. But yes, why not a default-value?
>>>>
>>>> Jacques
>>>>
>>>> From: "Bruno Busco" <bruno.bu...@gmail.com>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I need to show a default string (e.g. "None") in a field of a form of type
>>>>> "list".
>>>>> I was looking for something like...
>>>>> <field name="usage" title="${uiLabelMap.WebtoolsUsage}" sort-field="true">
>>>>> <display default-value="${uiLabelMap.CommonNone}"/>
>>>>> </field>
>>>>> ...but the display tag does not support the default-value.
>>>>> Would it make sense to add it?
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Bruno
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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