In order to replace normal EL value bindings and use closures instead, you must use a
special type of closure. You can create this type of closure with the Value() method that
is automatically available to view scripts.
To illustrate, following is a bad example and a good example showing the difference between
normal value closures and a closure binding:
In the Bad Example, we are simply using read-only value closures. When the JSF Input component
tries to set a value on someBean.property, it will fail. This is because gracelets has no way of
knowing what your closure is doing, so it is, at least at the moment, reasonably impossible
for gracelets to set any value in that closure.
However, as shown in the Good Example, when you use the Value() method to produce the closure
you are telling Gracelets that this is a special closure, that only has a simple instruction in it
referring to a property. Gracelets assuming what is expected will then use a Binding Walking technique
to figure out the bean and the property on it that you want to get/set.
The type of logic you can put into a closure binding as show above is limited. Basically
remember that inside this closure you MUST return a property of some bean. If you have very
complex logic you will want to use the solution discussed below. But for most cases, where
you simply just want to refer to a property, the above method should work fine.
Complex Closure Bindings
To write some complex setter/getter right inside of
your script, you can use the Value() method in a different way. The following example will
demonstrate this:
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h.inputText(value: Value(
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setter: { value -> if (value) { bean1.property = value; } else { bean1.cleanup(); } },
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getter: { bean1.property }
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))
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Above we say that when we want to get the value, call the closure getter, which
simple returns the property "property" of the "bean1" bean. However in the setter
we say that if the value is not null or 0, then go ahead and set the property
as usualy, otherwise call a special cleanup() method on the "bean1" bean.