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Wicket as a templating engine
I'm using wicket page inheritance to take care of consistent look and feel
for pages but I'm stuck on one detail...
In the markup for a WebPage, I need to insert dynamic text in lots of
places. What is the closest wicket has to something like this:
<html><body>add text here <wicket:call="theThing">, and also here
<wicket:call="theThing">, and in a few other places
too.</body></html>
class ExamplePage extends WebPage{
String xyz;
...
public String getTheThing(){ return xyz + new Date().toString(); }
}
I was thinking adding a label and turning off the tags, or maybe use
wicket:message somehow? I am looking for a concise way to do it.
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Re: Wicket as a templating engine
Posted by pkc <pk...@gmail.com>.
Interesting. I may try to make a generic <wicket:insert="abc.xyz">
tag that uses the page's default property model to resolve the "abc.xyz".
Will this work?
Two other "cool" things I'm looking for:
1) Does <wicket:extend> support a codeBehind attribute? Say I have 20
stateless pages and I want them all to extend one BasePage and then use my
<wicket:insert> tag for the fairly simple dynamic stuff.
2) To avoid "tag soup", I don't want things like if statements or loops in
the templates. However, I would like to have <wicket:insert> support
property model values that resolve to collections. So can someone suggest a
way to use repeaters in a generic way? Something like this:
<wicket:insert="addressList" item="address">
<wicket:insert="address.firstName"/><br/>
</wicket:insert>
If I can get this much working, I can wicket for the entire site!
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Re: Wicket as a templating engine
Posted by Igor Vaynberg <ig...@gmail.com>.
write your own tag handler. use wicket:message as a template. see
WicketMessageResolver and WicketMessageTagHandler
-igor
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:36 PM, pkc <pk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using wicket page inheritance to take care of consistent look and feel
> for pages but I'm stuck on one detail...
>
> In the markup for a WebPage, I need to insert dynamic text in lots of
> places. What is the closest wicket has to something like this:
>
> <html><body>add text here <wicket:call="theThing">, and also here
> <wicket:call="theThing">, and in a few other places
> too.</body></html>
>
> class ExamplePage extends WebPage{
> String xyz;
> ...
> public String getTheThing(){ return xyz + new Date().toString(); }
> }
>
> I was thinking adding a label and turning off the tags, or maybe use
> wicket:message somehow? I am looking for a concise way to do it.
>
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