Re: [WebMacro-user] Problems upgrading Melati to WebMacro 2.0b1

[Tim P. <ti...@pa...>]

On Friday 27 February 2004 4:04 pm, Keats wrote:
> I'd be willing to change the default behaviour of $Form to return empty
> strings instead of nulls, as this seems more useful.  Any objections?

I may not have correctly analysed what is causing the new behaviour,=20
but it seems good not to change the way things work.

> I would also add a method to check if a parameter exist, e.g.,
> $Form.Exists.formVar.

That seems useful.=20

> btw, what problems are you having with FastWriter?  You should be able =
to
> just ignore it altogether with 2.0.

Would that that were true.=20

Tim Joyce 'understood' the FastWriter and used it pervasively.=20
In trying to remove it I have broken everything.=20

The first symptom [1] was given Template A abd templets b and c=20
evaluated within it I got output=20
bcA

I then fiddled some more.=20

The problem seems to be that org.webmacro.Template no longer=20
renders to a FastWriter but to an OutputStream, which breaks=20
my rendering to a string buffer, as a StringWriter does not have=20
an OutputStream ????

http://melati.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/melati/src/org/melati/template/webma=
cro/WebmacroTemplate.java.diff?r1=3D1.8&r2=3D1.9
shows you the 1st change I made to get to [1] above.=20

I could really do with some help.=20

cheers
timp