[Webmacro-devel] Re: Fix new map type to better handle "put"

[Keats <ke...@su...>]

[I haven't figured out how to use SF's tracker so I'm responding to this here.]

I can't reproduce this.  Using the following test template:

#set $myMap = {"Value": "Old value"}
#set $myMap.Value = "A value"<br>
\$myMap is $myMap

I get:

$myMap is {Value=A value} 

This is exactly what one would expect and desire.

The problem *does* occur if you use the "round bracket hack" syntax.  E.g.,

#set $myMap = {"Value": "Old value"}
$myMap.put("Value","A value")<br>
\$myMap is $myMap

produces:

Old value
$myMap is {Value=A value} 

This is a different, and much less serious issue.  The workaround of course is to use a junk variable:

#set $prevValue = $myMap.put("Value","A value")<br>

You could also use your own map implementation or wrapper, e.g.,

#set $myQuietMap = $quietMap($myMap)

[It would be nice if we could specifiy the Map implementation used by WMScript by default.  Can we do this now?]

If you want to keep this as an enhancement request, please update the description.

Personally I would give this a low priority.

Keats