groovy

$!{text} toString()'s to "" instead of null

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  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: 1.5
  • Component/s: None
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Description

For GroovyTemplates its not very desirable to have alot of "null" printed everywhere we might have included a possible null value. So it would be nice to have a way to make GString print "" instead of null.

Velocity does that via $!

{text}

which I think is ok, but we may just parse the Template text and always "insert" $

{(text == null) ? "" : text"}

since I think its always the desired behaviour for gstrings to not print null (within Templates).

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Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. GROOVY-481 Consider enhancing default string templates to support $foo or $!{foo}

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.
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Task - A task that needs to be done. GROOVY-753 complete parser

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.

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  • Assignee:
    Paul King
    Reporter:
    Thomas Heller
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