[#XDT-608] <fieldName> capitalize attribute

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<fieldName> capitalize attribute

Created: 15/Aug/03 05:37 AM Updated: 18/Jun/04 11:14 AM

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Core

Affects Version/s:

1.2 Beta 3

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1.2.2

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File Attachments:	1. namecap.diff (1 kB) 2. new_patch.txt (2 kB) 3. patch.txt (2 kB) 4. patch.txt (2 kB)
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When using the field tagss for Java source generation, it is ofen necessary to convert the first letter of the field name to upper case (field foo --> doFooCommand() etc).

Unless there is not a way to achieve this already, I'd like to propose a "capitalize" attribute for the fieldTag-Tag. When set to true, it will convert the first letter to upper case, otherwise the tag's behaviour is unchanged.

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Sven Künzler added a comment - 15/Aug/03 05:39 AM

Proposed functionality as patch

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Felipe Leme added a comment - 02/May/04 07:38 PM

I agree - the capitalization feature is quite interesting. I created a patch too, although with a slightly different approach: my patch creates 2 new methods for the FieldTagsHandler: setterName() and getterName().

These methods use xdoclet.ConfigParamIntrospector to create the setter and getters for a field. Here is an example on how I'm using it to create a JSP custom tag:

<XDtField:forAllFields>
public abstract void <XDtField:setterName/>( <XDtField:fieldType/> <XDtField:fieldName/> );
</XDtField:forAllFields>

I think this improvement is very important - unless there is anothe way to achieve what we are looking for.

Regards,

Felipe

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Felipe Leme added a comment - 02/May/04 07:39 PM

Here is the patch I mentioned - it creates 2 new methods on FieldsTagHandler.java

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Felipe Leme added a comment - 02/May/04 08:15 PM

After reading Sven's comments more carefully, I decided to create a new patch, as my previous patch would not solve his problems.

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Felipe Leme added a comment - 02/May/04 08:18 PM

Oops, I uploaded the wrong patch earlier. Sorry...

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Heiko W. Rupp added a comment - 16/May/04 01:12 AM

Patch applied - Thanks.
(I was looking for such a thing about a 1.5 years ago, when I was trying to produce Swing GUIs from EntityBeans declarations).

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Felipe Leme added a comment - 18/Jun/04 11:14 AM

Just as a side note, I mentioned this patch in my article (which is what motivated my patch :-):

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2004/06/18/el-taglib.html