Sounds cool - I'll make the change and commit it.
Cheers, Tim
On 06/03/2009 16:56, "marius d." <marius.dan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +1 for overloading '? '
>
> On Mar 6, 4:52 pm, Derek Chen-Becker <dchenbec...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think this is a reasonable addition, but I would use
>>
>> def ?(key : String, defaultKey : String) = ...
>>
>> That way changing the default text just doesn't require changes to code.
>>
>> Derek
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Tim Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote:
>>
>>> Guys,
>>
>>> I have a situation where I want to localize a bunch of dynamic texts,
>>> however the current behavior of S.? is to return the input text if its
>>> found in a resource bundle. Whilst I see the rational for this, I have
>>> another situation where I want to pass a key, and if it doesn't find
>>> it, display something else (the english version). Id rather not use
>>> the english text as the translation key, as if the english text
>>> changes, my database translations will break (not good!)
>>
>>> I can achieve the functionality needed right by doing something like:
>>
>>> S.loc(item.localization_key.toString + ".name") match {
>>> case Full(t) => t
>>> case _ => Text(doc.name.toString)
>>> }
>>
>>> But it would be nice if we could have a utility method in S which
>>> allowed you do do:
>>
>>> ?("my.localization.key", defaultText.toString)
>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>>> Cheers, Tim
> >
>
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