On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 01:09:21AM +0200, Seb wrote: > > Hi Ladislav, > > > > 1) How do I propagate a variable Up the component tree? The use case is > > simple: I have Base.mc, which defines most of the page layout, and another > > one, let's say it's foo.mc, which wants to add to the title. I could > > probably find a way to hack it by studying the generated class files, but > > surely, there must be a simpler way. > > If this example, perhaps the best option would be <%attr> if the title can be > a fixed string, or <%method> if your component needs to compute the title.
I'll try it, thanks! > > > 2) How do I create custom component type? I've noticed I can add custom > > suffixed, but seen no way to declare component it self. I've found that pure > > perl components are a bit hacky, since they seem to only append the > > '<%class>' > > and '</%class>' and are hacked inside the Interp and Compiler. > > I am thinking of making the same thing, in the end, I just want to see the > > content before it's modified and filter some stuff in and out. I wonder if > > there is a clean way to do it, > > I'm not sure you need a custom component type for modifying a plain text > file. > The obvious option would be to use a textarea (that's what Wikipedia uses). > If > your user is supposed to use a text editor, then maybe he could upload the > file afterwards. Am I missing something? Yes, you are. I want the text file to be a Mason component file, that can do all the things and moreover is formated in the right way, so I can generate some metadata for it and preprocess the contents by markdown (and if used properly, the markdown will leave Mason instructions intact, so they can be evaluated later in the process). The plain text editor should be something like 'vim', no web based editing... > > > Here, you can see another challenge, and that is indexing of *.pp's, so > > they > > can appear somewhere automatically (and I won't have to call File::Find or > > something else each time I want the list), but this is the easiest part. > > If the list of files is not dynamically generated, then you'll want to > compute > it once (using 'find', for example) and store the result. You can then > dynamically read the stored file, in case you update it by hand or by > crontab, > or you can hardcode its contents in the component that allows your user to > navigate it. A medium solution would be to use an expirable cache. > > > Best regards, > Seb. -- S pozdravem Ladislav Láska <la...@kam.mff.cuni.cz> Katedra Aplikované Matematiky, MFF UK tel.: +420 739 464 167 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
