Grails If Statement not working? - grails

Question

I am currently trying to implement a nested if statement on a view in my Grails application. I have the code below which firstly checks to to if a value is true and if so it renders some code (this works). Then if this is not true it falls into the else statement, in here I need a nested If Statement to look at a value and render a different piece of code based on the value.
<g:if test="${a?.staticValue == true}">
<g:field type="text" name="staticText" readonly="true" value="${a?.data}"/>
</g:if>
<g:else>
<g:if test="${a?.type == 'Door'}">
<g:field type="text" name="doorField" value="" placeholder="${a?.wood}"/>
</g:if>
<g:elseif test="${a?.type == 'Floor'}">
<g:field type="text" name="floorField" value="" placeholder="${a?.laminate}"/>
</g:elseif>
<g:elseif test="${a?.type == 'Window'}">
<g:field type="text" name="windowField" value="" placeholder="${a?.blinds}"/>
</g:elseif>
</g:else>
Nothing gets rendered within the else statement and only the first box is shown so the nested if statements do not work for some reason and I don’t understand why. If I remove the if statement at the bottom and run the code below the value show "Door".
<g:field type="text" name="typeField" value="" placeholder="${a?.type}"/>
I don’t understand why this isn’t working and I am probably missing something silly but would really appreciate the help on this.
Thanks in advance
***EDIT****
So I have changed my code as suggested below to trim any white-space even though there shouldn’t be any and I get a weird error:
<g:if test="${a?.type.trim().equals('Door')}">
The error below seems to suggest that there is no data being pulled:
No signature of method: com.smstool.Dynam$VarType.trim() is applicable for argument types: () values: []
This is weird because I have added this else statement to the end and this return the value of "Door" to the view:
<g:else>
${a?.type}
</g:else>
Does anyone have any ideas what may be going on here as im confused :S Thanks

Answer 1

Try: if a?.staticValue is String try old java way:
<g:if test="${a?.staticValue}">
<g:field type="text" name="staticText" readonly="true" value="${a?.data}"/>
</g:if>
<g:else>
<g:if test="${a?.type.toString().equals('Door')}">
<g:field type="text" name="doorField" value="" placeholder="${a?.wood}"/>
</g:if>
<g:elseif test="${a?.type.equals('Floor')}">
<g:field type="text" name="floorField" value="" placeholder="${a?.laminate}"/>
</g:elseif>
<g:elseif test="${a?.type.equals('Window')}">
<g:field type="text" name="windowField" value="" placeholder="${a?.blinds}"/>
</g:elseif>
</g:else>
for case insensitive:
equals can be changed to : equalsIgnoreCase