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

[Udo Borkowski]

> Hi. does <(t()); format="upper"> work?

Nearly. It seems it eats (leading) white spaces.

Here my little example group:
-------------------
t() ::= <<
   abc
 >>

main() ::= <<
«t()»
«t();format="upper"»
«(t());format="upper"»
«t().render;format="upper"
 >>
-----------------
Rendering main will produce this output:
-----------------
   abc
   abc
ABC
   ABC
-----------------
3rd line is the (t()) case, 4th line produced by my ST ObjectAdapter.

Udo


On 25.01.2011, at 20:45, Terence Parr wrote:

> Hi. does <(t()); format="upper"> work?
> Ter
> On Jan 25, 2011, at 12:56 AM, Udo Borkowski wrote:
> 
>> 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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