Re: Tricky question (?) re. JXTemplate accessing object functions, not values

[Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson <tn...@marcello.no>]

Very quick question:

Does the Velocity generator work just as well as the JXTemplate generator?

I may end up using Velocity templates\generator instead of JXTemplate, 
but I'm a bit wary of this because the Velocity generator isn't 
mentioned very often in the cocoon doc.. :)

Regards,
Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson



Nicolas Bielza wrote:

> I don't know about the JXTemplate generator, but you may want to try the
> Velocity generator which does access object methods (if they are
> public).
> 
> Regards,
> Nicolas.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson [mailto:tn@marcello.no] 
> Sent: 14 juin, 2004 07:49
> To: users@cocoon.apache.org
> Subject: Tricky question (?) re. JXTemplate accessing object functions,
> not values 
> 
> 
> Hey again-
> 
> Problem: I've got a java object with a 'String getText(String id)' 
> method. This object acts as an abstraction of a database
> (the database contains text content in different languages.)
> 
> Now, what I would like to do is send this java object to the jxtemplate 
> generator, and in each jxtemplate access javaobject.getText(id) 
> directly, like this:
> 
> ${javaobject.getText("Submit_btn_txt")}
> 
> Now of course this doesn't work, since the jxtemplate generator is only 
> able to access data directly through the variables of an object, not its
> 
> functions. (Right?)
> 
> The only other alternative I'm able to see right now is
> 
> A: constructing a java object hardcoded with all the possible getText() 
> element in public variables, or
> B: for each jxtemplate, construct a smaller object with only the needed 
> subset of data variables for the current template.
> 
> Either way, not an elegant solution given a huge (and growing) database 
> of elements!! Any immediate thoughts\suggestions on the problem?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson
> 
> 
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