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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