[Seaside] Dynamic bindings...howto?

[Avi Bryant]

This reminds me - David, did you ever figure out the new configuration 
stuff?  If so, how about you write up a little tutorial? ;)

On Jun 10, 2004, at 9:01 AM, Stephen Pair wrote:

> David,
>
> More than likely, it's Seaside's use of continuations that is throwing 
> things off.  Dynamic bindings uses the call stack to locate bindings.  
> Invoking a continuation places you in a context that is in an entirely 
> different call stack, therefore bindings do not carry through the 
> invocation of a continuation.
>
> - Stephen
>
> C. David Shaffer wrote:
>
>> I guess I mean "dynamically scoped variables." I'm trying to leverage 
>> KomService's dynamic variable binding support but I'm having 
>> problems.  Before I waste an entire night on it I thought that I'd 
>> ask if anyone is using it successfully.  I just want to make sure 
>> that I'm not going nuts.  Anyway, here's what I'm doing...it seems 
>> simple enough:
>>
>> In the Kom services service for StarBrowser I stopped the server, 
>> picked "edit bindings" and then in the resulting inspector on an 
>> instance of DynamicBindings I evaluated:
>>
>>    self at: #TestMyBinding put: 1234.
>>
>> started the server (it looks like the start method actually 
>> establishes the current set of bindings for a server) and then in my 
>> renderContentOn: for one of my components I added
>>
>>    html text: #TestMyBinding binding printString.
>>
>> loaded the component in a fresh web browser window but the binding 
>> shows up as nil.  I verified that the HttpService which is running 
>> does indeed have my bindings in it's bindings i-var.
>> Searching the web for docs hasn't turned up much.  I did play with 
>> manually clamping the bindings and that seems to work but I would 
>> like set of bindings for my running server (to use for configuration 
>> management).
>>
>> David
>>
>
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