[#SCALATE-42] use 'meta templates' as a way of generating templates for a specific view

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use 'meta templates' as a way of generating templates for a specific view

Created: 11/Mar/10 12:08 PM Updated: 24/Mar/10 05:01 PM

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scalate-core

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Fix Version/s:

1.0

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~~SCALATE-39~~ have a little development time console to allow the currently viewed template (or its layout) to be edited, lazily creating a new template if there is not one already (e.g. if a base class template is being rendered)

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Imagine from inside sbt (or mvn shell or something) you typed something like

generateView org.acme.Person

which then auto-generated a sample template for the type in file: src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/org/acme/Person.index.ssp

This would work using a kinda meta-template - a template which generates a template (and uses introspection to iterate through the properties to render.

e.g.

http://gist.github.com/329070

Folks could have a few styles of meta-template to reuse - such as vertical table; multi-column table, form, list or whatnot

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James Strachan added a comment - 24/Mar/10 05:01 PM

see the sample web application to see it in use