Re: [htmltmpl] die_on_missing_params

[Mathew R. <mat...@ne...>]

Hi List,

Patch sent directly to Josh so as to avoid the list noise.  If people
are interested, I will post it (and the test cases).

cheers,
Mathew


Joshua Ball wrote:
> Hi Mathew,
>
> (This is the same Josh as @highgatecross. My e-mail there is down, so
> I subscribed from another address. :->)
>
> That's exactly what I'm looking for. I'm dealing with legacy code
> which has highly nested includes in the templates. From what I've been
> able to tell, I don't think the original coder relied on implicit
> undefness. My main concern is that I want to be warned if there are
> subs that I ought to be calling (to fill in template parameters in
> things like headers and footers). It's especially easy to overlook
> when the tmpl_var's are used for "hidden" information, like URLs and
> hidden form fields.
>
> Where can I find your patch?
>
> Thanks again,
> Josh "Ua" Ball
>
> On 5/31/07, Mathew Robertson <mat...@ne...> wrote:
>   
>>  Short answer: no there isn't such a feature.
>>
>>  However I do have a patch I use to add this ability - with one caveat...
>> the patch changes the behaviour such that if your code never implemented:
>>
>>   $ht->param(parm_name => undef);
>>
>>  but did rely on the undef'ness of param_name, then your code would need the
>> above line added where appropriate.  I found that I would often write:
>>
>>   $ht->param(param_name => get_something());
>>
>>  so param_name would be explicitely set to undef, and so the patch works for
>> me.
>>
>>  Mathew Robertson
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Joshua wrote:
>>  Greetings.
>>
>> (I'm sorry if I double posted this. However, the first time I sent it, I was
>> not subscribed to the mailing list, so I don't think it went through.)
>>
>> I find the "die_on_bad_params => 1" to be a very useful feature. Setting it
>> to 0 is kind of like debugging Perl without "use strict;".
>>
>> However, die_on_bad_params only does half the job. It dies if I try to set
>> non-existent vars, but it does nothing if I forget to set an existing var.
>> Is there a way (such as a die_on_missing_params option) that I can turn on
>> some such warning system? (Perhaps there are some extensions to
>> HTML::Template that do this?)
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Josh "Ua" Ball
>>
>>
>>
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