Re: Teething troubles

On 9 March 2012 13:13, Daniel Dekany wrote:
> Friday, March 9, 2012, 11:14:27 AM, Tim Pizey wrote:
> [snip]
>>> Don't do that... BeansWrapper uses standrad JavaBeans rules. Changing
>>> that would be rather annoying for anyone who wants to work with the
>>> templates later.
>>
>> Sure, I do not intend to replace, but to extend into my own
>> VelocityBeanWrapper. (though I think there may be others who would
>> like to be able to use both Sun and Velocity method notation)
>
> Maybe I'm missing something here. Do you actually have
> ${table.TableInfo.Category.Name} with all those capital letters in the
> Velocity templates?
Yes
> That would be incredibly... strange.

Err, no, this is standard Velocity  and WebMacro usage.
I have read java.beans.Introspector, and don't like it, I much prefer
the Velocity way.
I am surprised at your surprise, and that you have not had people with this
problem before.

> Also, you can possibly just extend BeansWrapper with subclassing (as
> opposed to modifying the source code).

Yes.

> If you indeed have some naming
> convention mismatches, and you are sure that you don't want to fix
> those in the templates instead, note the
> BeansWrapper.finetuneMethodAppearance method.

Thanks.

I have also looked at tools/vel2ftl
This has an eclipse project name of cavalry, and would probably build
if an old version of
freemarker.jar were placed in its lib directory.
As it is it does not compile.

thanks for all your help

Tim

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Tim Pizey
http://pizey.net/~timp

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