[Webmacro-devel] Bitter Melati

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

Greetings,

Changes to WM 2.0 have introduced a regression in melati and yours truly 
is running low on patience and work arounds.

Basically, interleaving of the output no longer works as expected in 
2.0. I have looked at FW and Brians cvs changes and others and cannot 
see the regression in the code.

Interleaving occurs when you have 2 or more objects which can write to 
the output stream with byte buffers acting as backing stores. A template 
chunk or exposed object which "expands" and uses this backing store can 
race ahead of the rendering of the overall template. EBR and I did some 
of this stuff early on a few years back. As in

... template begin

$Render("Foobar", $output)

... template end


In WM 2.0, we therefore have a functional difference. The above snippet 
of code would render "Foobar" at the beginning of the output stream and 
not at its physical location.

I have tried the things that made sense. And, I have tried to make my 
complete ignorance of Melati a kind of blessing. It is now a curse. And, 
bitter. Any approaches, ideas would be most welcome. I am actually 
considering altering the code in o.w.FastWriter to write to the target 
output stream, wrapped by a buffer stream, but am afraid this would 
break a whole lot of other things.

thanks for giving this some thought and a reply.

-- 
Lane Sharman
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