[Cppcms-users] Template rendering. Access the actual class, rather then members?

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Greetings,

I have been following the CPPCMS tutorials regarding view rendering.

What I see mostly is that when you render your data (let's use the example
of content::message)

so we have:

    content::message c;
    c.text=">>>Hello<<<";
    render("message",c);

and then in the templates, we use this data as:

<% view message uses content::message %>  
<% template render() %>  
<html>  
  <body>  
    <h1><%= text %> World!</h1>  <-- this is a part of message.
  </body>  
</html>  
<% end template %>  
<% end view %>  

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What I wanted to know, is there a way to access "message" object in the
template, directly? Like instead of doing:

<%= text %>, is there any way where I can refer the actual parent object:
like <%= message.text %> ?

The advantage I will have is, that while calling the render method (as in
render("message",c);), I would be able to pass my data directly.

Let's say in the Message Board's Example. If you see the passing of
data::forum to templates, you were required to construct a parent kind of
object, which would contained vectors to topics, etc. But if you see from
the usage or design point of view, it would be great if I were able to pass
the topics directly, without making it require a parent kind of wrapper.

Let me know, if there exists any way to achieve it.

Regards,
Abhishek