Re: [htmltmpl] RFC: Objects in templates

[Timm M. <tm...@ag...>]

I've seen ideas like this suggested many times before, and it should be 
done.  Just needs someone to sit down and write the code :)

At 10:29 AM 6/2/04 -0500, michael wrote:
>Since others are in the mood for RFCing, here's something that I was thinking
>about implementing for myself and I just wanted to know how others felt about
>it as well.
>
>I was wanting to use Class::DBI to Model my data and H::T to View it. When I
>do this I end up with a lot of code that looks like this
>
>$tmpl->param(
>      ObjAtt1 => $obj->att1,
>      ObjAtt2 => $obj->att2,
>      ObjAtt3 => $obj->att3,
>      ObjAtt4 => $obj->att4,
>      ObjAtt5 => $obj->att5,
>       );
>
>And then the accompanying tmpl_vars in the templates. I was thinking about
>using  something similar to the way Template Toolkit handles it where I can
>just specify an object and then have H::T pull the attributes (or methods) as
>needed. Something like this...
>
>$tmpl->param(Obj => $obj);
>
>and then in the template have
>
><tmpl_var name="Obj->att1"> <tmpl_var name="Obj->att2">... etc
>
>or something like it. I think it should also allow the user to specify what
>token will be used to separate objects and methods (ie, change '->' to just
>'.' like in Perl6). I think some mechanism should also be given so that you
>can loop around objects as well (an array of objects).
>
>so that
>$tmpl->param(Obj_loop => \@array_of_objs);
>
>would work for
><tmpl_loop Obj_loop>
>   <tmpl_var Obj->att1> <tmpl_var Obj->att2>
></tmpl_loop>
>
>If there are serious reasons for not including this in standard H::T tags then
>maybe some new tags like TMPL_OBJ_VAR and TMPL_OBJ_LOOP.
>
>Questions, comments, verbal abuse welcome.
>
>Michael Peters
>
>
>
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