Re: Content Scoping

That sounds like a real nice solutions, which should make everyone happy.

-Andy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Eden" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [JPublish-developer] Content Scoping


> I can go either way on this.  If enough people are interested in scoping
> then perhaps I can put it in as an option.  The main benefit from
> scoping I believe would be in cases where you have content actions
> produced by two different authors which may not know what the other is
> doing.  In this case it would be nice to have a safety mechanism so that
>   the author of one content action wouldn't mess with the context values
> for the other content.
>
> Perhaps the easiest thing to do would be to allow a content-local
> context and have content lookups occur there first and then if the
> object is not found look in the global context?
>
> Sincerely,
> Anthony Eden
>
> Andy Zeneski wrote:
> > Thought I would throw out a quick idea and see what other JP users
think. I
> > was thinking it might be nice to introduce a little scoping when it
comes to
> > content actions.
> >
> > Currently in JP:
> > Page actions run first
> > Template actions run when merge is called
> > Content actions run for each included content
> >
> > If content1 sets some values in the JP context they are currently
available
> > to content1 and everything which follows.
> > If content1 overrode some value defined in a page action, it is no
longer
> > available.
> >
> > I am proposing content actions be limited in scope to just the included
> > content.
> >
> > page action:
> > context.put("foo", bar");
> >
> > include content1
> > content1 action:
> > context.put("foo", "nobar");
> > foo = nobar for content1
> >
> > include content2
> > no action for content2
> > foo = bar for content2
> >
> > I'd like to hear thoughts on this..
> >
> > -Andy
> >
> >
> >
> >
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