Define empty methods in your autohandler and override them in your component.
In autohandler: <%method footer></%method> In my.comp: <%method footer><& footer.comp &></%method> The inheritance mechanism causes the footer method in the autohandler to be replaced by the one in my.comp (which in this example calls footer.comp). If you don't want any footer text for a given component, just omit the method, and the one in the autohandler (which does nothing) will be used. You can use the same technique for setting the title and meta tags in the header. See http://www.masonbook.com/book/chapter-5.mhtml#TOC-ANCHOR-4 for a more in depth discussion. -----Original Message----- From: MK [mailto:halfcountp...@intergate.com] Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 1:40 AM To: mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Mason] no args for autohandler? I haven't been using autohandlers at all because half my components are for ajax calls and so should not be wrapped -- instead, I just use a header.comp for the normal pages. Now I have a directory of small components that can occur in several different places with a slight variation, so I have a simple boolean arg (supplied, or not supplied) to distinguish whether they are appearing in one place or another. This variation is always the same, so I thought it would be a good directory to use an autohandler in: % if (exists $ARGS{foot}) { <blah blah> % else { <whatever> % } % $m->call_next. It appears the autohandler does not work this way, ie, does not process any arguments. Not a big deal; it is almost as easy to just use a default component at the top in all the other files and pass the arg on: <& default.comp, foot=>$ARGS{foot} &> but I thought I'd check and see if there isn't something I'd missed here. Also, is there an easy way to pass the entirity of %ARGS on? Something like: <& comp, ARGS=>%ARGS &> -- MK <halfcountp...@intergate.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
