Play 2.4 scala - Is pattern matching in templates no longer supported

[Toby Hobson]

I need to pattern match on an object in my template, basically I need to handle the rendering differently depending on whether i'm dealing with a base class or a sub class. The 2.0 docs show an example of such matching but I can't find anything in the 2.4 docs. Is this no longer supported and if so is there a workaround?

Thanks

[Will Sargent]

Can you provide a test case which fails?

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Toby Hobson <toby....@gmail.com> wrote:

I need to pattern match on an object in my template, basically I need to handle the rendering differently depending on whether i'm dealing with a base class or a sub class. The 2.0 docs show an example of such matching but I can't find anything in the 2.4 docs. Is this no longer supported and if so is there a workaround?

Thanks

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[Toby Hobson]

Hi Will,

My question wasn't whether it works or not. I just wanted to know if the feature is still supported (either in the community or commercial sense) because it has been removed from the docs. Basically my team is writing a prototype using Play as part of a technoogy evalutation and we don't want to get half way into this, hit a problem and be told "that feature is no longer supported". In general I've seen quite a bit of inconsistency in the docs between versions and it's hard to know if it's because features have been deprecated/removed or someone simply forgot to add them.

[bassebergman]

The Twirl template-language does use Scala which supports pattern matching.
check out this link where there still is an example of pattern matching on a string: https://playframework.com/documentation/2.4.x/ScalaTemplateUseCases#Tags-%28they-are-just-functions,-right?%29

[Toby Hobson]

Thanks Sebastian, that's helpful. As I understand it whitespace is treated differently in twirl so for example this will not work:

@level match {
    case "success" => <p>success</p>
}

but this will:

@level match {
    case "success" => { <p>success</p> }
}

Is my understanding correct?