Re: [Cppcms-users] Local variables in template

[Tolga H. <fas...@gm...>]

By the way, I know I can use <% c++ ... %> by the way but then I have to
manually add the escape function. I am asking if there is another, better
way of doing it.

On Mon Jan 19 2015 at 10:02:11 PM Tolga HOŞGÖR <fas...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> First of all thanks for this great project. It works flawlessly and it is
> well designed.
>
> I looked through the documentation but I could not find anything about
> declaring and using local variables in templates. My exact use case is a
> boost::optional variable used as:
>
> <div style="(<% if (const auto var = object->test()) %>property: <%= *var
> %>;<% end %>)"></div>
>
>
> where object->test() returns a boost::optional<std::string>. The problem
> is that inside the if statement, *var is automatically replaced with
> *content.var. Is there a way to prevent this? What is the correct way of
> this kind of usage?
>
>
> Thanks.
>