Feature Proposal: Include Parameters With Default

Motivation

The ParameterizedIncludes is a powerful feature to build a library of components. Dynamic behavior can be done by supplying parameters to INCLUDEs. There is currently no easy way to take action on optional parameters. The new ParameterizedVariables feature supports defaults, so does VarURLPARAM. This proposals adds a defaults to parameters passed to INCLUDEs.

Description and Documentation

When you do this: %INCLUDE{ "Library" section="alertbox" title="Hello" message="This is a test." }%

You typically have a %title% and %message% in the alertbox section to show the title and message, respectively. This proposal adds optional defaults to these variables, such as %title{ default="Alert!" }% and %message{ default="Please specify a message parameter" }%

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny - 2011-04-05

Discussion

This proposal is now accepted by the 7 days review period.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-04-13

This is now implemented and documented in SVN trunk. See VarINCLUDE, IncludeTopicsAndWebPages.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-04-14