I too was unaware of this aspect of Digester (apparently it was added
in the latest release.) I agree with Joe's take that it appears to be
only helpful during the initial parsing of the rules.
I have dealt with something similar myself. Basically I had some XML
template that I wrote to convert
At 11:51 AM -0500 12/4/04, Sean Schofield wrote:
The velocity engine did everything for you. If your text did not have
velocity markup in it, no harm done, it just ignores it. Maybe we
could use something like this. Also, VelocityContext really just
wraps a HashMap, so it might be possible to
My one comment this morning is that is looks like Martin is getting ready to
tag and roll a release, so of course we should wait for that to happen before
committing any changes.
If for any reason Martin is tied up, and people are chaffing to commit, of
course I'd be happy to step up.
-Ted.
Developers
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Subject: Re: [chain] add expression evaluation?
At 3:08 PM -0800 12/2/04, Craig McClanahan wrote:
Interestingly, Digester already supports the expression replacement
mechanics (see org.apache.commons.digester.Substitutor), so
Yep. The only thing I'm waiting for at this point is getting the
MyFaces jars up on ibiblio so that both Maven and Ant builds will work
without intervention. Then I'll fix the build files and tag and roll
the Chain 1.0 release.
Matthias over in the MyFaces team has said he'll try to put together
In a discussion on the struts-user list, I got around to describing a
configuration format which made me wonder if folks would tolerate
some kind of expression evaluation engine in chain.
The musing repeated below:
At 1:57 PM -0600 12/2/04, Joe Germuska wrote:
I think you could find the view
Interestingly, Digester already supports the expression replacement
mechanics (see org.apache.commons.digester.Substitutor), so it ought
to be really easy to do this kind of thing, and an elegant solution to
boot.
I'm +1 for it.
Craig
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:40:31 -0600, Joe Germuska [EMAIL
I've never used JEXL but the Mozilla Rhino javascript engine is pretty
keen. Maybe this feature could start in contrib and move to the core if
people find it useful?
David
--- Joe Germuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a discussion on the struts-user list, I got around to describing a
At 3:08 PM -0800 12/2/04, Craig McClanahan wrote:
Interestingly, Digester already supports the expression replacement
mechanics (see org.apache.commons.digester.Substitutor), so it ought
to be really easy to do this kind of thing, and an elegant solution to
boot.
I'm +1 for it.
Craig
I hadn't seen
