Can we execute multiple Confluence Macros on same page in parallel?

[AustinS]

Hey there,

We have one macro that could be used/added multiple times on single Confluence page. Right now we find it execute sequentially, but we want it can execute at same time when user press "Save" button.  How could we make sure they executes in parallel?

Is there a way we can implement this or some config settings in Confluence we can use to switch executing order?

Thanks.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Why do you think you need to do this? 

[AustinS]

Customers' request. They want to load macros and get results faster.

[AustinS]

Is that possible in Confluence?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

"Customer request" is not an explanation of why you think you want to do this.  It does not matter who is asking, the question is why?

To get results faster, look at performance.  Remove macros from the page, optimise the code for the macros if they're your code, get faster networks, make sure your users are using proper browsers (not IE), get better servers, tune the JVM and so-on.

[David Brama]

It might be possible to run a transformer before the macro gets executed and replace the macro elements.

com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.transformers.Transformer 

 can be registered in the plugin descriptor:

<transformer key="<TRANSFORMER KEY>" name="<TRANSFORMER NAME" class="<CLASS THAT IMPLEMENTS Transformer>" chain="storageToView" weight="-100000"/>