[Webmacro-devel] New features for 2.0?

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

I've been playing around with some new stuff for WM and I thought I'd
solicit some feedback:

1) CookieTool

added the ability to set attributes by adding a setNew() method, so now you
can say:

    #set $Cookie.New.Dohicky = "My little dohicky."
    #set $aCookie.Domain=".acme.com"
    #set $aCookie.Path="/"
    #set $aCookie.MaxAge=365*24*60*60
    $Cookie.add($aCookie)

I also created a wrapper for the Cookie that does stuff like automagically
URL encode/decode the value if necessary.


2) FormTool

Added the ability to set default values for all form elements and/or for
each form element, eg,

   $Form.DefaultValue = null
   $Form.Name.Default = "Guest"

(The default DefaultValue is now the empty string.)

I deprecated "getPossibleForm" and added a new version called
"getIgnoreCase", so:

   $Form.IgnoreCase.NAME, will retrieve an element called "name", "Name",
"NAME" etc. (The first one it finds.)

I also added isExists(), so the following works regardless of the default
values:

  #if ($Form.Exists.Name){ ...


3) #try directive

Simplified version of the Java construct.  #try without #catch works kind of
like the old #silent directive.  If you specify #catch you get a local
$ERROR variable:

#try
{
  #set $Customer.Category = $cat
}
#catch
{
   #set $Customer.Category="INVALID"
}

[Note: you pretty much need to use the CrankyEEH with this.]

I remember Eric saying he did this a while ago, but then Brian talked him
out of it.  I'd like to hear the reasoning.  I find it quite useful for
validation and debugging.

Let me know what y'all think.

Keats