Just catching up, it's a busy week before burning man :-)
I think this is a marvelous idea.
I actually started working on a JSTL-ish set of tags based on the Groovy
expression language because AFAICT the Groovy expression language is a
perfect superset of Velocity's. The main reason, though, is that Groovy
has a nice API that lets me evaluate expressions directly so it's easy.
I'd be perfectly happy with VSTL instead of GSTL... it's just a question
of a nice API for evaluating expressions.
Jeff
Will Glass-Husain wrote:
(And I thought I was being so clever about the Context idea).
Another issue is that the emerging VSTL is useful for if's and set's
but shares JSTL's wordiness for straight output
(e.g. <c:out "${model.property}"/> instead of just $model.property).
But mixed in with veltag, you could easily render a block of Velocity
in the middle of a page.
The more I think about it, the more I like this idea. Be nice for
those of us who use JSP and Velocity all the time. I'd think the
tasks to build this out into production-ready toolkit would be
something like this:
* modify Velocity core to support evaluation of expressions
* create new VSTL tag library in part that parallels JSTL
* add in macro capability (?)
* merge in veltag (?)
* document, create examples, website, etc.
This would be a nice sub-project of a future Velocity TLP. :-)
What do you think Jeff? Is this feasible or have we hijacked your
idea into something new?
WILL
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