Re: [Melati-developers] Re: [Webmacro-devel] Bitter Melati

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

The unit test idea is the best way to go. I was thinking of this late 
last night when nothing would work. Let's get a unit test case to show 
what i mean and then decide how we want to tackle this.

-Lane

Eric B.Ridge wrote:

> can you boil all of this down into a simple unit test for all of us to 
> see?
>
> eric
>
> On Mar 10, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Lane Sharman wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> -- 
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