Re: [WebMacro-user] Parsing Properties files

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

 > What do you suggest how we go from here?

If you're in a hurry, give it a shot yourself.  You can look at a simple 
directive, like SetblockDirective, for a starting point and I can give 
you assistance with specific questions.

If you're not in a hurry, I'll can crank out something for you, but it 
may take a week or two.  I'm pretty swamped at the moment.

Keats

Lars George wrote:

> Hi Keats,
>
>> I actually had a PropertyDirective years ago that did just what you 
>> are saying, but I've lost track of the code.  (It never got committed 
>> to the core because nobody expressed interest.)  There is some code 
>> in the core that parses expressions from the webmacro.properties 
>> file.  I can point you to that if it is helpful.
>
>
> Any pointer is helpful :)
>
>> As I recall, all I did was parse the properties as a template and 
>> then pipe the results into a properties object via the load() method.
>
>
> Hmm, I did not even consider parsing the file, but you are right, that 
> is a good thing.
>
>> I could probably resurrect this code for you if that would meet your 
>> needs.
>
>
> Either or, the code would be great, but also what you propose below is 
> making sense. Especially with the include in between, that would 
> basically do what I need easily but has even more power for other 
> uses. I am all for it.
>
>> Of course you could the #include with this as well:
>>
>> #properties $user {
>>  #include "user.properties"
>> ...
>
>
> What do you suggest how we go from here?
>
> Thanks,
> Lars
>