Re: [Webmacro-devel] WM WebApp design draft

[Lane S. <la...@op...>]

Marc Palmer wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:53:22 -0000, Marc Palmer <ma...@an...> 
> wrote:
>
>>> Second, I want to see some rule-based action handling from a template:
>>>
>>> #if (conditionA) { $actionA }
>>> .
>>> .
>>> .
>>> #if (conditionZ) { $actionB }
>>
>>
>> Hmmm, very interesting. Using templates as action handlers. 
>> Interesting plan. I will have to think about this more.
>
>
> Actually that's probably not what you meant is it. I suspect you meant 
> having a template that determines which action gets executed. If so, 
> this could be done with a custom ActionList implementation that loads 
> a single "actions.wm" template that provides all this logic, and it 
> evaluates this template every time getAction(WebContext) is called.
>
> Am I on the nail now? 

Yeah. You let the template author control the expert action flow. Not 
the servlet writer. In this case, the action control flow is delegated 
to a template writer's expert knowledge of the action flow, rule base. 
The programmer writes the ugly stuff like transaction commits, etc.

-Lane

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