Re: A WM brain bender

why don't you go ahead and do this implementation?

-Lane

Keats Kirsch wrote:

> Continuing the conversation with myself ...
>
> Another interesting option would be to change the #eval directive to 
> work with Strings as well as Macros.  (I would automatically convert 
> the String to a StringMacro).  This would be a simple change.  The 
> only downside is that it might make it a bit harder to catch some errors.
>
> Then you could simply say:
>
> #eval $content.Data using { "contextData": $someData }
>
> This is kind of cool.  You could even do stuff like:
>
> #eval "Hello, $userName" using { "userName": $User.Name }
>
> Keats
>
> Keats Kirsch wrote:
>
>> Looking back at the old TemplateTool code, it does what you want, but 
>> not in a particularly elegant way:
>>
>> #set $m = $Template.fromString($content.Data)
>> $m.eval({ "contextData": $someData })
>>
>> For some reason the MacroTemplate class doesn't implement the Macro 
>> interface.  This would be a simple change that would allow you to say:
>>
>> #set $m = $Template.fromString($content.Data)
>> #eval $m using { "contextData": $someData }
>>
>> I could make this change if anyone is interested.
>>
>> Keats
>>
>> Marc Palmer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Long time no speak!
>>>
>>> I finally got around to getting 2.0b1 (only a year late!) and am 
>>> working on the start of CMS using WM.
>>>
>>> I wonder if I'm being really stupid, but I want some of the content, 
>>> which is pulled in from String data, to be treated as a WM template.
>>>
>>> So given a content string loaded from the CMS, say "<p>Hello, 
>>> $name</p>", I want to use this in my page, a template itself, but 
>>> have $name evaluate. i.e. something like this in the main CMS 
>>> rendering template:
>>>
>>> <div>
>>>    #eval $content.Data using { "contextData": $someData }
>>> </div>
>>>
>>> ...but eval only works with Macro objects to my knowledge.
>>>
>>> Does anybody know how I can do this? I effectively want the same as 
>>> #include but from a String instead of a file.
>>>
>>> I've tried:
>>>
>>> <div>
>>>    #templet $block
>>>       $content.Data
>>>    #end
>>>    #eval $block using { "contextData": $someData }
>>> </div>
>>>
>>> ...but of course this is not correct as $content.Data is not 
>>> evaluated at the time the templet is defined. I also tried #setblock 
>>> as macro etc.
>>>
>>> It's a bit confusing. I'd like to not have to write a 
>>> helper/directive to load a Macro tempalte from a String unless I 
>>> have to...
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>
>
>
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