Home/ Questions/Q 1033335
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-16T14:13:00+00:00

My problem is extracting xhtml attributes to generate absolute links, since they need to

  • 0

My problem is extracting xhtml attributes to generate absolute links,
since they need to be different on testing and production
environment.
I would like to use a “global snippet” that binds all “src” and “href”
attributes to “localhost:8080” or “www.mydomain.com” depending on a
conf value.

This is how the template looks like:

<lift:Global>
  <html><body><a G:href="/somelink">some text</a></body></html>
</lift:Global>

And this is the Global.render method:

bind("G",template,
  AttrBindParam("href",Conf.localhost
    +BindHelpers.attr("G","href").map(_.toString).getOrElse("none") ,"href")
)

But in the rendered page all I see is … href=”confValueNone”.

What am I doing wrong?
Is there a better way to configure for different environments?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    I use AttributeSnippets now. They are a bit heavier on the template side, but result in cleaner snippets.

    snippet:

    import xml.{UnprefixedAttribute, MetaData}

...

def src(in:MetaData):MetaData = {
  new UnprefixedAttribute("src",Conf.localhost+in.value.toString,scala.xml.Null)
}

def href(in:MetaData):MetaData = {
  val out = new UnprefixedAttribute("href",Conf.localhost+in.value.toString,scala.xml.Null)
  out
}

    template:

    ...
<script type="text/javascript" lift:Global.src="/inc/showdown.js" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" lift:Global.href="/inc/style.css" />
...
    • 0