Re: Programmatic parents?

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:43:20 +0200, "Iwan Vosloo" <[email protected]> said:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 06:36 -0700, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> > On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:25:59 +0200, "Iwan Vosloo" <[email protected]> said:
> > > The best solution I've been able to think of is to call
> > > spyce.spyceFileHandler once to render the child, passing it a
> > > spyceconfig in which I give the filename of the parent as the
> > > 'defaultparent'.
> >
> > What are you trying to accomplish?  You just want to avoid having
> > to type spy:parent, or is it something more than that?
>
> Its more.  Specifying the tag is not a big deal. Children are rendered
> with different parents, and they don't know when they will be rendered
> 'inside' which parent.  Different parents need different parameters to
> be passed for them to render correctly...  So,  I want the children NOT
> to know what needs to be passed to the parent in the spy:parent tag.
> The caller of spyce.spyceFileHandler knows all this stuff (which parent
> + which parameters to pass).

You have strange requirements. :)  But this should actually be pretty
easy.  Just look at how spyce.py:spyceProcess uses self._parent, and
forge the appropriate parent data appropriately before your handler
calls into that.

-Jonathan
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