Re: [Webmacro-devel] Handling Dreamweaver stuff

[Eric B. R. <eb...@tc...>]

On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 04:01  PM,=20
kea...@na... wrote:

> I think using the EEH would be great, but it does present some=20
> challenges as Eric has pointed out.=A0 The unknown directive =
exceptions=20
> are thrown by the parser.=A0 The parser does have a reference to the=20=

> broker, so it should be able to get the EEH and pass exceptions back=20=

> to it.

Technically, it's a BuildException, not a ParseException.

>
> Unfortunately the EEH interface was designed to handle evaluation=20
> exceptions (hence the name).=A0 To handle parse exceptions we would=20
> probably want a new method in the interface (like "parse()").=A0 This=20=

> would require a change in all existing EEH implementations.=A0 =
Probably=20
> not a huge problem, but something to consider.=A0
>
> Also the name wouldn't be quite appropriate if we expand the scope of=20=

> this.=A0 It should probably be just ExceptionHandler or=20
> WMExceptionHandler.=A0 Maybe an o.w.ExceptionHandler interface could=20=

> extend EvaluationExceptionHandler and add the new method.=A0 Then if =
you=20
> configure an ExceptionHandler, it would automatically set the EEH as=20=

> well.=A0 This should preserve backwards compatability.

I don't think we'll need to change the interface for EEH.  But we=20
could/should change the name...

>
> In any case, someone would need to tweek the parser -- and I know of=20=

> only two candidates ...

The parser won't need to be touched.  I don't believe.

>
> Keats
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric B. Ridge [mailto:eb...@tc...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:05 PM
> > To: la...@op...
> > Cc: Brian Goetz; ma...@an...;
> > web...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [Webmacro-devel] Handling Dreamweaver stuff
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 04:12=A0 PM, Lane Sharman wrote:
> >
> > > ebr:
> > >
> > > Can you make a stab at modifying eeh so that we can try this out?
> >
> > I can, yes... when I find the time.
> >
> > The issue here is that EEH is used as a "runtime" thing, not a
> > "buildtime" thing, so I'm not sure how it will interact with the
> > BuildContext (if it all).
> >
> > Assuming I can work that out, I guess we want:
> > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 CrankyEEH to *always* throw on #unknown directives
> > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 DefaultEEH to *always* pass #unknown directives to =
the
> > stream as
> > string literals
> >=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 MarcEEH to do whatever Marc wants, to =
be written by him.=A0=20
> :)
> >
> > eric
> >
> > >
> > > -l
> > >
> > > Eric B. Ridge wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 03:35=A0 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>> This problem is elegantly solved thru the introduction of a
> > >>>> property,
> > >>>> StrictDirectiveTypeChecking. Invariably, there will be
> > times when
> > >>>> you
> > >>>> cannot "include as text" a DW file because you will want to add
> > >>>> some WM
> > >>>> var reference to it!
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> I'd rather see "strict directive checking" rolled in with
> > other forms
> > >>> of strict checking (like the Cranky EEH), rather than have seven
> > >>> different
> > >>> things a user would have to do to get strict checking.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Better yet (maybe), roll this thing through EEH... if that's even
> > >> possible.
> > >>
> > >> eric
> > >>
> > >>
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