[jira] Updated: (TAPESTRY-2016) Make it simple to add new parser patterns

["Howard M. Lewis Ship (JIRA)" <de...@tapestry.apache.org>]

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Howard M. Lewis Ship updated TAPESTRY-2016:
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    Fix Version/s: 5.1

> Make it simple to add new parser patterns
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>                 Key: TAPESTRY-2016
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAPESTRY-2016
>             Project: Tapestry
>          Issue Type: Wish
>    Affects Versions: 5.0.8
>            Reporter: Kevin Menard
>             Fix For: 5.1
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> I realize that this is a wish item, but I think it could add a lot of power to Tapestry.  Right now, expansions are awesome to use, but at the same time they're still quite limited.  Being able to contribute new expansion patterns could lead to some really interesting results.
> At the simplest level, I could just use something other than ${blah}.  For example, my first T5 app was basically a port from a Django app.  Django uses {{blah}} for its form of expansions.  If I could have contributed that as a pattern the migration would have gone a lot easier.
> Things could get increasingly more sophisticated, however.  Looking at Django again, they have something called "filters" that seem quite similar to T5's mixins.  What's interesting is that filters can be chained together in an expansion.  As an example:
> {{ object.date|date:"F j, Y" }}
> That takes a date from some object and pipes it through the date filter, which is configured with the text following the colon.
> You could string these arbitrarily long.  Maybe you have one filter to make clickable URLs out of any URLs in a given text section and then pipe it into another that truncates the total amount of text.
> I could see value in adding yet another expansion for outputting raw values rather than using a component in the template to do so.
> Anyway, lots of things I'd like to see enhanced with the template processor in general.  I think the path of least resistance would be to make it possible for someone to easily make a contribution and if something becomes popular enough, look at adding it to Tapestry proper.

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