Creating a catch-all for unknown handlers

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sun Dec 12 17:41:23 EST 2004


On 12/12/04 2:41 PM, "Gordon" <gwalias-rev at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Revolutionaries
> 
> Is this feasible or just a crazy notion ...?
> 
> Is there a way to create a catch-all backscript that
> would catch any "unknown handler" error and then look
> through a list of e.g. custom properties to see if it
> could be evaluated, and then returning the value.
> 

> This would make it possible to create custom
> properties with names like client.address.zip and then
> just use them in your code where a handler would
> normally be.

Well, you can do this now:

  set the client.address.zip of this stack to "90034"

(later:)

  put the client.address.zip of this stack
  --> 90034


Does this not do what you want?

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com




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