Re: Nested Java directives - best practice on how to make values available to inner directive?

On Jan 31, 2008 6:16 PM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:

> Anyway, what you are looking for is
> called "parent-child communication" or "parent-children communication"
> on this list. But this feature was only added in 2.4, which is
> unreleased and unstable.

Thanks. That's pretty much what I'm looking for, exactly. Can't wait
for 2.4, then.


> They won't be (unless the Spring guys did some big trick...), since a
> shared variable is always a top-level variable, for technical reasons.

So shared variables are always top-level variables, got it. I guess
the segue question is how do I load custom Java directives at
Configuration time?

I mean, what's the equivalent of
Configuration.addAutoInclude("mynamespace", "mymacros.ftl") for custom
Java directives?


> I say, use globals for now... Which can be even more irritating when
> you have directives that can be nested into the same kind of directive
> (like: <@ul bullet="box.gif">...<@ul bullet="arrow.gif">...</@ul>...</@ul>)

I know. Or see if Jonathan's tip on using
env.getCurrentNameSpace().get() will help in cases like this. Ahh -
meanwhile, I'll just have to be content with what can get done now.

- Alistair A. Israel

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