Re: [Webmacro-devel] #templet directive

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:01:07 -0700, Lane Sharman <la...@op...> 
wrote:

> 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)???

Well, does Macro implement toString()? If so, then all you need is a 
StringToFile helper class/context tool/function.

$Save( "home/org/webmacro/dyn/$ClassName.java", $JavaTemplate)

Trivial?

Why not just write an app for this (antwmcompile?). I don't get why WM 
should be doing this when it's the app that renders templates. Having one 
page produce multiple outputs is... more like a full language :)



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