FXML expression binding

[Philipp Dörfler]

Just to clarify - at the moment, FXML expression binding uses UEL?

Thanks,
~ Philipp

Am 07.05.2013 um 11:42 schrieb Werner Lehmann <lehmann at media-interactive.de>:

> See below.
> 
> On 07.05.2013 01:56, Richard Bair wrote:
>>> ! boxD.selected&&  boxE.selected seems to be: !(boxD.selected&&  boxE.selected)
>> 
>> I'd probably call that one a bug. Whether it was or not!
> 
> I would agree. Looks to me as if there might be special code checking for a '!' at the beginning of the expression. Regardless whatever comes next.
> 
>> At the time, I really wanted us to use UEL (same expression language used by JSF, JSP) for the following reasons:
>>     - EE engineers will be familiar with it
>>     - Lots of example code out there
>>     - Implementation already exists and is robust
>> 
>> There were a few things I felt needed fixing in UEL to be quite what
>> I wanted, but basically I felt we should take it and go. Since then
>> some other binding languages have come on the scene such as
>> handlebars and I don't remember how many others we looked at. Should
>> we just take UEL, or should we take a full survey of the JS
>> state-of-the-art?
> 
> Personally I don't know UEL (used only OGNL on Tapestry). Not sure if UEL documentation 100% applies to FX beans/properties when it is intended for EE beans. For example, what about obserable properties, or the #{} syntax. If that is clarified I'd be happy with the choice.
> 
> The "Parameterized Method Calls" feature might even help to resolve RT-19198 which is about preselection in selection models in FXML. One problem here: select() is a void method, so there is no good result of that expression and in this case you wouldn't want to use it anyway.
> 
> http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/bnahu.html#gjhbz
> 
> Werner