Hi,
Thanks for the feedback.
Which tapestry class is responsible for parsing the templates and
augmenting the page classes to perform rendering?
J
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo <
thiag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I don't think adapting Tapestry's template engine to support templating
> JSON is a good idea. It was built to output HTML and XML and nothing else.
> Is there anything else that does what you want? Why not using a generic
> template engine like FreeMarker or, better yet, use some Java JSON mapper
> like Jackson? I do see the point of implementing some Java class to
> Tapestry JSON object mapper, but as a template, I see none, I'm sorry. If
> you want to implement it, go ahead. :)
>
> Regarding reflection, the Tapestry BeanModel classes, which are now in a
> separate JAR and can be used without tapestry-core, are very fast and does
> caching of everything got by reflection, so they're a solid foundation for
> doing what you want.
>
> On the other hand, supporting PUT and DELETE HTTP methods in Tapestry pages
> is something I had some thoughts over time.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Qbyte Consulting <
> qbyteconsult...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Would it be feasible or indeed sensible(?) to convert/adapt Tapestry to
> > render JSON?
> >
> > Page classes would provide API endpoints and unpack params and body
> content
> > to properties and the templates would have JSON instead of TML. I'd also
> > want to modify the tapestry tags (t:if t:loop etc) to something much more
> > simple and JSONesque.
> >
> > The page classes would support the GET/POST/PUT and so forth by
> convention.
> > I also envisage being able to filter, resort and augment responses
> through
> > an execution chain.
> >
> > i.e: a JSON template
> >
> > {
> > "id": $,
> > ?"name": $,
> > <prices id='$' orderBy='ASC'>,
> > "tags": [$]}
> >
> >
> > $ would call corresponding getter methods e.g. getId, getTags etc..
> > ? would invoke hasName and render the name value if true
> > <> would embed components - <prices...> could render "prices" : [1,2,3],
> >
> > I'd like to harness Tapesty to emit JSON from rendering char streams
> > instead of having to use concrete domain classes that have to be
> reflected
> > and such as per JAXB and other similar frameworks that seem to make a
> meal
> > of JSON. I'd like plastic to convert the template into stream emitter
> > methods that are called transparently in the plastic classes. Hiding the
> > boilerplate code
> >
> > I like the idea of writing the JSON template myself, it's clearer more
> > flexible and can stream and follows the ethos of Tapestry. Reflection
> must
> > slow the rendering down a lot.
> >
> > Is this crazy, any thoughts? I want to have flexibility and write minimum
> > code, and max reuse things Tapestry is good with.
> >
> > John
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Thiago
>
