Re: [Cheetahtemplate-discuss] Re: Cheetahtemplate-discuss digest, Vol 1 #770 - 8 msgs

[Shannon -jj B. <jj...@gm...>]

Well, gees, since you put it that way!  Tavis, do you agree with this
proposal?  Semantically, are we talking about something like:

$expr =3D=3D

try:
    return getVar(expr)
except:
    return ""

Best Regards,
-jj

On 4/27/05, James Robinson <jlr...@so...> wrote:
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> On Apr 27, 2005, at 12:29 PM, mic...@gm... wrote:
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> > I think subclassing Template is good idea. But I'm wondering if it's
> > possible to make instead of new version of getVar() function some
> > other notation like $@var or something that will do  the same but in
> > much more compact way.
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> A feature like this is quite handy in Velocity -- syntax is:
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>         $!var
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> as in:
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>         <input type=3D"text" name=3D"mls_number" size=3D"15" maxlength=3D=
"15"
> value=3D"$!u.mLSNumber">
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> So, if either $u is not bound in the context, or $u does not have a
> mlsNumber method, or, finally, if the value returned from the method
> call is null, then just return empty string.
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> Extraordinarily convienent -- much more so than littering the HMTL with
> all those little ifs. Especially since we're highly considering
> dropping JBoss/JPublish/Velocity and switching over to Python/Cheetah
> for our site.
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