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

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

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?
>
No. I think throwing an exception is a harsh error in the current 
context. Do it!

-Lane

>
>I would also add a method to check if a parameter exist, e.g.,
>$Form.Exists.formVar.
>
>btw, what problems are you having with FastWriter?  You should be able to
>just ignore it altogether with 2.0.
>
>Keats
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Tim Pizey" <ti...@pa...>
>To: <web...@li...>
>Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 10:09 AM
>Subject: Re: [WebMacro-user] Problems upgrading Melati to WebMacro 2.0b1
>
>
>On Friday 27 February 2004 2:50 pm, Keats wrote:
>  
>
>>Hey Tim,
>>
>>I'm not aware of any change to the $Form tool, but perhaps some other
>>change impacted this.
>>    
>>
>
>Something has definitely changed since 1.1,
>$Form.unusedVariable produced "", now throws exception.
>
>  
>
>>Anyway the recommended approach AFAIK is:
>>
>>#if ($Form.unusedVariable){ -- do something -- }
>>
>>This is a bit tedious.  I have added a method to the Form class called
>>getNoNull(), so you can just say:
>>
>>  $Form.NoNull.someField
>>
>>which will return the value of "someField" or an empty string.  I can
>>commit this if noone objects.
>>    
>>
>
>What about changing the behavior of $Form
>(not the general behaviour of null handling) ?
>
>  
>
>>Keats
>>    
>>
>
>
>thanks
>TimP
>I am having a  horrible time with the FastWriter code.
>
>
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