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

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On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Eric Ridge wrote:

| On Apr 5, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Endre St=F8lsvik wrote:
| >
| > This is getting clearer - but why is "evaluate" there in the first
| > 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
| 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
| WM.

Aha .. The evaluate() or write() is kinda "recursive"..? It would be
marvelous if this was documented, -preferrably- right in the JavaDoc,
include the little 5-liner within <core> tags as an example.

Thanks,
Endre