org.webmacro
Interface Macro

All Known Subinterfaces:

Template

All Known Implementing Classes:

Block, Directive, Expression.ExpressionBase, MacroAdapter, StringMacroAdapter, UndefinedMacro, Variable, VoidMacro, WMTemplate

public interface Macro

Directives, variables, macro calls, blocks, conditions, text, etc., all have this as their supertype.

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	evaluate(Context context) same as out but returns a String
void	write(FastWriter out, Context context) Interpret the directive and write it out, using the values in the supplied context as appropriate.

Method Detail

write

public void write(FastWriter out,
                  Context context)
           throws PropertyException,
                  java.io.IOException

Interpret the directive and write it out, using the values in the supplied context as appropriate.

Throws:

PropertyException - if required data was missing from context

java.io.IOException - if we could not successfully write to out

evaluate

public java.lang.Object evaluate(Context context)
                          throws PropertyException

same as out but returns a String

Throws:

PropertyException - if required data was missing from context