T5 - Property binding enhancements

[Bogdan Calmac <bc...@gmail.com>]

Hi Howard,

Is there any plan to support List and Map access in the prop: binding
for the final release of Tapestry 5? This would be nice and save a lot
of boilerplate code in the page classes, because lists an maps appear
quite frequently in the data model for a page. I'm thinking of
something like:

list: "questions[5].text"
map: "persons[jim].height" or even "persons.jim.height" if it is
possible to determine that persons is a Map when building the conduit.

Thanks,

Bogdan Calmac.

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Re: T5 - Property binding enhancements

[Howard Lewis Ship <hl...@gmail.com>]

After you de-reference a value from a list, you end up knowing only
type java.lang.Object which contains no accessible properties.
Generics is a fiction enforced at compile time, but there is some
runtime information that Tapestry might be able to leverage to allow
this kind of reference.

On 3/22/07, Bogdan Calmac <bc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Howard,
>
> Is there any plan to support List and Map access in the prop: binding
> for the final release of Tapestry 5? This would be nice and save a lot
> of boilerplate code in the page classes, because lists an maps appear
> quite frequently in the data model for a page. I'm thinking of
> something like:
>
> list: "questions[5].text"
> map: "persons[jim].height" or even "persons.jim.height" if it is
> possible to determine that persons is a Map when building the conduit.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bogdan Calmac.
>
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