[stringtemplate-interest] Using the "format" option with a template calls

[Udo Borkowski]

While the "format" option work fine with attributes, like in

	<attr;format="upper">

it does not seem to work when used together with template invocations, like:

	<t();format="upper">

I don't know if this is intended (e.g. because of performance reasons) or a bug. I personally would like to have the format option also work in the latter situation. E.g. when I "refactor" my templates it happens data once stored in an attribute moves into a template. This was not possible when the "format" option is used.


I am currently working around this by using a custom ObjectModelAdapter for ST, using this code:

	public Object getProperty(ST self, Object o, Object property,
			String propertyName) throws STNoSuchPropertyException {
		if ("render".equals(propertyName) && (o instanceof ST)) {
			return ((ST) o).render();
		}
		return super.getProperty(self, o, property, propertyName);
	}

This way the above example looks like this:

	<t().render;format="upper">

While this works fine I am still wondering if the "format" options should also work for the simple template call, too.

What do you think?

Udo

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