Add support for Macros in UI definition

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We may need to add macros in UI definition so that users
do not need to define a lot of repetitive elements. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by John.Jian.Fang@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2009 at 3:53

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I add the "Include" syntax to Ui module definition. You can put
commonly used UI modules into a base class, for example,

public class BaseUiModule extends DslContext {

  public void defineBaseUi() {
    ui.Container(uid: "SearchModule", clocator: [tag: "td"], group:
"true") {
      InputBox(uid: "Input", clocator: [title: "Google Search"])
      SubmitButton(uid: "Search", clocator: [name: "btnG", value:
"Google Search"])
      SubmitButton(uid: "ImFeelingLucky", clocator: [value: "I'm
Feeling Lucky"])
    }

    ui.Container(uid: "GoogleBooksList", clocator: [tag: "table", id:
"hp_table"], group: "true") {
      TextBox(uid: "category", clocator: [tag: "div", class:
"sub_cat_title"])
      List(uid: "subcategory", clocator: [tag: "div", class:
"sub_cat_section"], separator: "p") {
        UrlLink(uid: "all", clocator: [:])
      }
    }

  }

}

Then you can extend this base Ui module,

public class ExtendUiModule extends BaseUiModule {

  public void defineUi() {
    defineBaseUi()

    ui.Container(uid: "Google", clocator: [tag: "table"]) {
      Include(uid:
"SearchModule")
      Container(uid: "Options", clocator: [tag: "td", position: "3"],
group: "true") {
        UrlLink(uid: "LanguageTools", clocator: [tag: "a", text:
"Language Tools"])
        UrlLink(uid: "SearchPreferences", clocator: [tag: "a", text:
"Search Preferences"])
        UrlLink(uid: "AdvancedSearch", clocator: [tag: "a", text:
"Advanced Search"])
      }
    }

    ui.Container(uid: "Test", clocator: [tag: "div"]) {
      Include(uid: "GoogleBooksList.category")
      Include(uid: "GoogleBooksList.subcategory")
    }
  }

}

You can see that you can use the "include" syntax to include pre-
defined UI elements.

The Include must have the uid attribute to refer to which element it
wants to include. 

Original comment by John.Jian.Fang@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2009 at 8:34

• Changed state: Fixed