Hi BJ
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:15 PM, BJ <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is not possible to include the substring >> within the json string
> - maybe we could have escape the chevron \> but I cannot think where we
> would remove the \
>
Part of the problem is that the macro call parser is pretty
unsophisticated. I'd like to refactor to avoid the lookahead for the
closing >> (basically using the same technique we use for the HTML element
parser).
Best wishes
Jeremy.
>
> ?
> On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 3:48:40 PM UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>
>> Hi BJ
>>
>> Maybe we should extend the standard element/widget syntax to allow
>> multiline attributes with, say, triple double quotes:
>>
>> <$text text="""
>>
>> {"some":"json"}
>>
>> """/>
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 6:58 AM, BJ <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry I am being unclear.
>>> A json can contain any unicode character, but tw5 macro calls syntax is
>>> limited to 4 type of strings.
>>> in macrocallblock.js, the definition of a macro parameter is given by
>>> reParam = /\s*(?:([A-Za-z0-9\-_]+)\s*:)?(?:\s*(?:"([^"]*)"|'([^']*)'|\
>>> [\[([^\]]*)\]\]|([^"'\s]+)))/mg
>>> The first term is optional label of the form
>>> labelname:
>>> which we can ignore
>>> the second term defines macro call parameters as strings of one of the 4
>>> forms
>>> "no double quotes here" OR
>>> 'no single quotes here' OR
>>> [[no square braces here]] OR
>>> no.spaces.or.quotes
>>> So if I have a json like
>>> {"akey":"this is a 'value' with [[a link]]"}
>>> I am unable to pass it to a macro, as it violates each of the four forms
>>> of macro parameters
>>>
>>> In my particular case I have a js macro that will return the value of
>>> map represented as a json, i.e. defined as
>>> valueof(key, map) where map is a json.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:29:12 PM UTC+2, PMario wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure, what you exactly try to do.
>>>>
>>>> But a json parser will allways fail, if you give it single quotes as a
>>>> 'key':value pair. This is by design / spec.
>>>>
>>>> see: http://json.org/ for the spec.
>>>>
>>>> can you post an example of your json, that causes the problem.
>>>>
>>>> -mario
>>>>
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>>
>>
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>>
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