Forum OpenACS Development: Re: wrong use of aa_call_component?

This seems like a bug to me. The comments inside aa_call_component suggest that the component should be evaluated in the calling environments stack, but that doesn't seem to be happening.

Looking at the test code in the news package, I see that calling aa_export_vars inside the component allows you to access $blah, but I agree with you that aa_export_vars is not supposed to be used for this purpose. It seems like a side-effect.

IOW, this works:

aa_register_component "my_component" {
  Chunk of reusable test code.
} {
  aa_export_vars {blah}
  aa_false "Verify blah exists." [empty_string_p $blah]
}