support alternate inline format to work around docs shortcodes

adapter-http/src/main/resources/http.md

@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ that each activity that uses the http driver shares a client instance across
 all threads by default. If you want to have a new http client per-thread,
 simply add a binding for `space: ThreadNumToInteger()` and reference it in
 an op template like `space: {space}`, OR use an inline op field in your op
-template like `space: {{ThreadNumToInteger()}}`.
+template like `space: {(ThreadNumToInteger())}`.
 
 You can use any binding function you want for the space op field. However,
 if you were to assign it something like "space: {{Identity()}}" you would

devdocs/updatenotes.md

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
 * Deprecated old drivers (conflicts, etc)
     - version conflicts (removing cql drivers 1.9.* 3.*)
 
+## New Topic
+* Advanced linearization features
+  * variable capture in results
+
 ## new Docs
 javadoc site
 developer guide

virtdata-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/virtdata/core/templates/BindPoint.java

@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ public class BindPoint {
         reference,
         /**
          * a definition bindpoint is expressed as anything between double curly braces like <pre>{@code {{Identity()}}</pre>
+         * or <pre>{@code {(Identity())}}
          */
         definition
     }

virtdata-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/virtdata/core/templates/BindPointParser.java

@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ import java.util.regex.Pattern;
  */
 public class BindPointParser implements BiFunction<String, Map<String, String>, BindPointParser.Result> {
 
-    public final static Pattern BINDPOINT_ANCHOR = Pattern.compile("(\\{((?<anchor>\\w+[-_<>,\\d\\w.]*)})|(\\{\\{(?<extended>(?!}}).+?)}}))");
+    public final static Pattern BINDPOINT_ANCHOR = Pattern.compile(
+        "(\\{((?<reference>\\w+[-_<>,\\d\\w.]*)})|(\\{\\{(?<inline1>(?!}}).+?)}})|(\\{\\((?<inline2>(?!\\)}).+?)\\)}))"
+    );
     public final static String DEFINITION = "DEFINITION";
 
 
@@ -55,14 +57,18 @@ public class BindPointParser implements BiFunction<String, Map<String, String>,
             spans.add(pre);
             lastMatch = m.end();
 
-            String anchor = m.group("anchor");
-            String extendedAnchor = m.group("extended");
-            if (anchor != null) {
-                bindpoints.add(BindPoint.of(anchor, bindings.getOrDefault(anchor, null), BindPoint.Type.reference));
-                spans.add(anchor);
-            } else if (extendedAnchor != null) {
-                bindpoints.add(BindPoint.of(DEFINITION, extendedAnchor, BindPoint.Type.definition));
-                spans.add(extendedAnchor);
+            String reference = m.group("reference");
+            String inline1 = m.group("inline1");
+            String inline2 = m.group("inline2");
+            if (reference != null) {
+                bindpoints.add(BindPoint.of(reference, bindings.getOrDefault(reference, null), BindPoint.Type.reference));
+                spans.add(reference);
+            } else if (inline1 != null) {
+                bindpoints.add(BindPoint.of(DEFINITION, inline1, BindPoint.Type.definition));
+                spans.add(inline1);
+            } else if (inline2 != null) {
+                bindpoints.add(BindPoint.of(DEFINITION, inline2, BindPoint.Type.definition));
+                spans.add(inline2);
             } else {
                 throw new BasicError("Unable to parse: " + template);
             }

virtdata-api/src/test/java/io/nosqlbench/virtdata/core/templates/BindPointParserTest.java

@@ -60,6 +60,20 @@ public class BindPointParserTest {
         );
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testInline2TypeBindPoint() {
+        BindPointParser bpp = new BindPointParser();
+        assertThat(bpp.apply("test {(this is a definition)} and {{another}}", Map.of())).isEqualTo(
+            new BindPointParser.Result(
+                List.of("test ","this is a definition"," and ","another",""),
+                List.of(
+                    BindPoint.of(BindPointParser.DEFINITION,"this is a definition", BindPoint.Type.definition),
+                    BindPoint.of(BindPointParser.DEFINITION, "another",BindPoint.Type.definition)
+                )
+            )
+        );
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testCurlyBracesWithinPattern() {
         BindPointParser bpp = new BindPointParser();