[Bese-devel] Re: Rendering a component to a string

[Marco Baringer]

Aycan iRiCAN wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to render a form component to a string? I want to send
> the filled form via email to someone.

the render :wrapping method on standard-component bind yaclml-stream to
the response's html-stream.

try messing with html-stream before calling render, something like this:

(let ((old-stream (html-stream (context.request *context*))))
  (with-output-to-string (render-output)
    (setf (html-stream (context.request *context*)) render-output)
    (render FORM-COMPONENT)
    (setf (html-stream (context.request *context*)) old-stream)))

(totally untested)

the more i think about it the stupider it seems to rebind yaclml-stream
in each and every call to render, moving this someplace else (like the
"top-level" call to render) would be a bit cleaner and make what you're
trying to do trivial.

hth.
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