Category: lift

Common lift gotcha’s

Going to keep this here so maybe others will find this usefull as well and I will adding more gotcha’s here as I ran into them. So this basically is an overview to my thickness to understand lift correctly 🙂

lift Error locating template Message: Expected ‘;’
What this means is, that I copied an example of a snippet that does not work (anymore) on my computer. Using scala 2.8.1 and lift 2.2, the example of the simply lift website is like this:
<div id="main" class="lift:surround?with=default&at=content">

However it should be:
<div id="main" class="lift:surround?with=default;at=content">

Notice the amp between default and at was changed into a ‘;’
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When trying to learn lift

use a goooood editor.

Today I was trying to get a really simple form working in lift, using the designer friendly approach. I kept on stumbling on the same kind of error:
error: value #> is not a member of java.lang.String
"#name" #> SHtml.text(name, name = _) &

and I could not figure out what was wrong with the code that I had practically copied from the simply lift web site. I kept trimming statements from my code till I had practically nothing left but a simple statement.
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