The assign parameter to many NATS and CARMA functions lets you
change output variable names. For example, the NATS4 template
function, nats_decode, creates the following variable by
default:
Unfortunately, if you already have a Smarty variable named $encoded when you call nats_encode, the new value overwrites the old value. We designed assign to solve this problem. Call nats_encode with an argument to the assign parameter to have
its output placed in the variable named by your argument. For example: the following code,
- {nats_encode assign="my_variable"}
puts the output in,
