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Querys in templates without empty line? [message #1699252]

Tue, 23 June 2015 04:34

Martin Gruber

Messages: 6
Registered: May 2015

Junior Member

Hello together,
I am using Java services and hence querys to do some additional calculations or checks.

In some cases, the java services (and so the querys) shall return *nothing* or *null*. For example if no matching objects where found.

I call this querys with a simple
[queryName/]

In this case, I will get newlines in the target file after each query even if the return value of the service is null.

Is there a possiblity to avoid this newlines in case of "no" return of the query?

Kind Regards and thank you in advice,
Martin

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Re: Querys in templates without empty line? [message #1699255 is a reply to message #1699252]

Tue, 23 June 2015 05:39

Ed Willink

Messages: 7635
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

Generally the new line from

[queryName/] <NL>

comes from the <NL> following the empty query. If you don't want it,
don't put a <NL> there, i.e you must have long unreadable lines.

Or embed the query within an if that gives you some control, although I
never could fathom quite which <NL>s in an if are ignored. So you are in
the realm of empirical programming.

Getting your output to be immaculately pretty printed can require quite
a lot of experiment.

Alternatively follow Acceleo's advice and follow the transformation with
a pretty printer.

Regards

Ed Willink

On 23/06/2015 05:34, Martin Gruber wrote:
> Hello together,
> I am using Java services and hence querys to do some additional
> calculations or checks.
>
> In some cases, the java services (and so the querys) shall return
> *nothing* or *null*. For example if no matching objects where found.
>
> I call this querys with a simple
> [queryName/]
>
> In this case, I will get newlines in the target file after each query
> even if the return value of the service is null.
>
> Is there a possiblity to avoid this newlines in case of "no" return of
> the query?
>
> Kind Regards and thank you in advice,
> Martin

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