iwgen vs iwpt_compile.ipl

I saw in iwpt_compile.ipl that you can pass params to your tpl.

Is it a way to send them through iwgen ? (I can't find it)

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Migrateduser

what do you mean by parameters passed in? iwgen just calls iwpt_compile.ipl behind the scenes. What is it that you are trying to pass in?

bibulle

in iwpt_compile.ipl, you can pass every arg (params) you need and get it back in the TPL through TeamSite:T::iw_xml::get_flag_param()

I saw this in the iwpt_compie.ipl perldoc.

How can we use it with iwgen ? (it's the correct way to use iwpt_compile)

Eric

Annexe : Extract of the perldoc

  -a_tag_name-flag [arg [arg ...]] 

                    Optional tag-specific flags/args.  Certain flags may be
                    mandatory, depending on the tags used by the template
                    being compiled (and its sub-components).

                    By convention, tag-specific flags have the following
                    structure:    -<tag>-<flag> <0 or more flag args>

                    For example, someone at Acme Corporation created a
                    custom tag named "<acme_xyz>".   Command-line flags
                    for this tag might look something like:

                                  -acme_xyz-xxxxx   moo cow
                                  -acme_xyz-yyy     egg
                                  -acme_xyz-zebra

                    All command-line flags given to iwpt_compile.ipl are
                    available to users of the <iw_perl> tag via the API 
                    function TeamSite:T::iw_perl::iwpt_get_flag_param().

                     Advanced users:

                       If you are a tag author and wish to fetch the
                       value of a command-line flag within the body of 
                       a tag itself, use the following API:

                            TeamSite:T::iw_xml::get_flag_param() 

                       or for code within an <iw_perl> tag, use: 

                            TeamSite:T::iw_perl::iwpt_get_flag_param() 

                       Some commonly used tag-specific flags are:

                                  -iw_pt-dcr <dcr>
                                  -iw_pt-arg <arg>
                                  -iw_pt-preview
                                  -iw_include-location <dir>

                       See the 'FLAGS' section in the documentation of the
                       following related tags for more details:

                                <iw_pt>         (TeamSite:T::iw_pt)  
                                <iw_include>    (TeamSite:T::iw_include)

Migrateduser

Well, I don't think that iwgen offers the ability to take the extra command line options. However, iwgen is just a wrapper that calls iwpt_compile.ipl and then sets the correct extended attributes on the generated file so that the TS gui will know to call the DCR editor and not download the file via launchpad if you attempted to edit the file through the TS gui.

If you have need to use the extra options that iwpt_compile.ipl provides you could always write your own wrapper script and set the correct extended attributes via iwextattr (however you would also need to write your own scripts for generating the output files since the built in mechanism in the TS gui would not allow you to pass parameters like these as well).