How to make a snippet in Lift - Scala - scala

Question

What I need to do is to put one tag into html page:
<lift:surround with="default" at="content">
<span class="lift:WorkingStatus.print"></span>
</lift:surround>
and to have a snippet class in appropriate snippet.* package:
class WorkingStatus {
def print():String={return "<table></table>";}
def speak = <span>Hello World</span>
def render = "* *" #> "Hello there in span"
}
function will generate some html table in string which will show up in html, like in def print() .
So, this is something rather trivial I cannot get to work in any way. I need a Scala class which could be incorporated wherever needed in html pages, like - lets say - with <jsp:include> and this class should be able to connect to outer web service, get list of some data and generate html which will then be inserted on desired places... complicated enough? :)

Answer 1

You have a wrong signature for the print method. Snippets' methods are NodeSeq => NodeSeq.
So the more verbose variant is
def print(xhtml:NodeSeq):NodeSeq={return <table></table>;} or you can use
def print = "*" #> <table></table>
if you will need a some kind of transformation, or just:
def print = <table></table>