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view framework/env/convert/from_human.lua @ 11:d76a8857ba62
Added ui.partial and other functions, which allow partial content replacement using XMLHttpRequests; Image support for ui.link
Also includes following changes:
- Fix for rocketcgi library to accept POST data content-types, which contain additional charset information.
- Support arrays passed as params to encode.url (only for keys ending with "[]")
- Version information changed to "1.0.7"
Documentation for added functions is not yet complete.
Also includes following changes:
- Fix for rocketcgi library to accept POST data content-types, which contain additional charset information.
- Support arrays passed as params to encode.url (only for keys ending with "[]")
- Version information changed to "1.0.7"
Documentation for added functions is not yet complete.
| author | jbe/bsw |
|---|---|
| date | Fri Feb 12 18:40:22 2010 +0100 (2010-02-12) |
| parents | 9fdfb27f8e67 |
| children |
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1 function convert.from_human(str, typ)
2 if not typ then
3 error("Using convert.from_human(...) to convert a human readable string to an internal data type needs a type to be specified as second parameter.")
4 end
5 if not str then return nil end -- TODO: decide, if an error should be raised instead
6 local type_symbol = convert._type_symbol_mappings[typ]
7 if not type_symbol then
8 error("Unrecognized type reference passed to convert.from_human(...).")
9 end
10 local converter = convert["_from_human_to_" .. type_symbol]
11 if not converter then
12 error("Type reference passed to convert.from_human(...) was recognized, but the converter function is not existent.")
13 end
14 return converter(str)
15 end