Macros in WO
Macros in WO
- Subject: Macros in WO
- From: Hugi Þórðarson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 17:48:36 +0000
Where to begin....
If anyone here has used Confluence, you'll be familiar with its
content macros. I love them, and I've been working on integrating them
in my WO projects. I'm interested in knowing if someone has actually
implemented something like these macros in WO, because I'm having
second thoughts about my implementation. I won't bother you with
details (trust me, I will later), so I'll start with the basics. The
syntax for a macro in my implementation looks like this:
{namespace:macroname argument="pair" argument="pair"}
Example, if I want to fetch content from a website and embed it, the
macro call might look like this:
{km:fetchdata url="http://karlmenn.is/"; encoding="UTF-8" timeout="10"}
The macro is processed in dispatchRequest() and I have, probably,
something like a hundred lines of code to do the processing; parsing
the response content and replacing the macros I find with their
processed results.
But. What I keep thinking is: "Hugi, you're doing this the wrong way.
A Macro is nothing but a component, arguments are just bindings - and
you're reinventing WO-inline syntax in a bad way".
So, if you made it this far - then finally, here's the question:
Anyone try to implement macros? And - if not, perhaps you harbor some
ideas of using WO's awesome power instead of writing this all over
again? Sounds simple, but I can't find any exposed API to do it
simply...
Cheers,
- Hugi
// Hugi Thordarson
// http://hugi.karlmenn.is/
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