Re: Fwd: [WebMacro-user] how to use Request and other 'special objects'?

[Keats K. <ke...@xa...>]

WM basically operates in two modes, Servlet or stand-alone, depending on 
how you initialize the WM object.  If you instantiate WM with a Servlet 
instance, it can access the the Web application context, so it uses a 
WebContext and tools that rely on this, like the RequestTool, 
SessionTool, CookieTool, etc, will work.  If you extend WMServlet, this 
happens automatically.

Hope this helps.

Keats

Peter Smith wrote:

>Seems I've gotten a bit closer.  I added the following
>entry to my WebMacro.defaults:
>
> ContextTools.Request=org.webmacro.servlet.RequestTool
>
>This I decided to do after finding an email in the
>archives referring to:
>
> ContextTools.Manipulate:
>com.acme.wm.ContextManipulator
>
>But this produces the following error:
>
>  context ERROR  Unable to initialize ContextTool:
>Request
>  org.webmacro.PropertyException: This only works with
>WebContext
>  java.lang.ClassCastException...
>
>What am I missing?
>
>
>--- Peter Smith <sh...@ya...> wrote:
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>>From: Peter Smith <sh...@ya...>
>>To: web...@li...
>>Subject: [WebMacro-user] how to use Request and
>>other 'special objects'?
>>Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 08:26:29 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>Looking for some doc on using Request and other
>>'context tools' - couldn't find on site.  
>>
>>First question - can I pass anything other than
>>Strings as arguments to my globally-defined template
>>functions?  I'm getting the following error when
>>trying to pass '$Request' as an argument:
>>
>>============
>>java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException:  Cannot
>>invoke toString() on an undefined variable.
>>============
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
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