I am writing a Groovlet and would like to delegate part of the HTML builder to a method but am having trouble getting it to work. Below is what I have:
def pages = [page1: html.p("page1")]
html.html {
p("p")
pages[page1]
}
I am expecting the following output:
<html>
<p>p</p>
<p>page1</p>
</html>
Instead what I get is the following:
<p>text</p>
<html>
<p>p</p>
</html>
What am I doing wrong?
I'm not overly familiar with the builder in question but I'd expect to be doing something like:
def pages = [page1: { p("page1") }]
html.html {
p("p")
delegate.with pages[page1]
}
Instead of pages[page1], of course, you could call any closure or a .&'d method.
You need the delegate.with so that the closure you're running has its method calls (like p()) resolved to the delegate of the closure running it (that is, the HtmlBuilder).