Re: [Webmacro-devel] Re: [Melati-developers] WebMacro Test Case: TestSharedOutputStream

[Eric R. <eb...@tc...>]

On Apr 5, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Endre St=F8lsvik wrote:
>
> This is getting clearer - but why is "evaluate" there in the first=20
> place,
> then? Macro is an iface, right? Why are there two methods,

Because WM can also be used to only affect the Context.  You can do=20
this:
	WebMacro wm =3D new WM();
	Context ctx =3D wm.getContext();
	Template t =3D wm.getTemplate("foobar.wm");
	t.evaluate(ctx);
	Object foo =3D ctx.get("Foo");

And .write() was never called.  Not by you, and not by the innards of=20
WM.

> That=B4s what I expected - it then just falls back to "normal property
> traversal" stuff, as with any Object put in the context, right?

yep.

eric