Re: [Webmacro-devel] #templet directive

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

I do a lot of code generation and I would like to be able to generate WM 
code as well. The problem I run into is streaming an  block within a 
template:

#setblock $JavaTemplate {
    class $ClassName
        bla, bla
}
## how to cleanly evaluate $JavaTemplate and stream this to 
home/org/webmacro/dyn/$ClassName.java?

Maybe someone could propose a practice here. I do not like mine 
currently. Possibly a context tool which is a writer? 
$EvalWriter(Stream, template, context)???

-Lane

What is the pattern going to look like

Brian Goetz wrote:

>>#output file="some/file.txt" {
>>  #eval $t using { "foo":"a", "bar":"b" }
>>}
>>    
>>
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>I really don't like this.
>
>Templates should be able to evaluate to two places: 
> - the template output
> - variables in the context
>
>That's it.  Not only is it a security risk to do otherwise, but its
>inviting all sorts of weird side effects.
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