Thilo,
I think this is a great idea. Would it work for something like this:
package Object;
sub new {
my ($class, $id) = @_;
my $self = {};
bless $self, $class;
$self->{name} = "name of object";
$self->{id} = $id;
return $self;
}
package main;
my $obj = new Object(1);
$tmpl->param(object => $obj);
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 22:10, Thilo Planz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for __counter__ and <tmpl_var default> in version 2.6.
>
> I'd like to suggest another feature:
> setting hashrefs as template parameters with the effect that
> HTML::Template retrieves all key/value-pairs from the hashref and sets
> corresponding parameters.
> The parameters follow a hierarchical naming scheme, so that you do not
> run into name-clashes and can easily keep track where the parameters are
> coming from.
>
> Use like this:
>
> $html->param('test'=>
> {
> 'a' =>
> {'a' => 1, 'b' => 2},
> 'b' =>
> {'c'=>3, 'd'=>4}
> }
> );
>
> to set
>
> <tmpl_var name='test/a/a'>
> <tmpl_var name='test/a/b'>
> <tmpl_var name='test/b/c'>
> <tmpl_var name='test/b/d'>
>
> Anyone else think this is useful?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thilo Planz
>
> ===================
>
> Here is the patch:
>
> # if the value is a hashref,
> # construct parameters from its key/value-pairs
> # and set them using recursion
> if (ref $value and UNIVERSAL::isa($value, 'HASH')){
> foreach (keys %$value){
> $self->param(($param.'/'.$_)=>$value->{$_});
> }
> return;
> }
>
> these lines go into HTML::Template (method param), just before
>
> # check that this param exists in the template
> $options->{die_on_bad_params} and !exists($param_map->{$param}) and
> croak("HTML::Template : Attempt to set nonexistent parameter
> '$param' - this parameter name doesn't match any declarations in the
> template file : (die_on_bad_params => 1)");
>
> ======================
>
> PS:
>
> I wouldn't try to stuff a hashref that contains recursive references
> into the method.....
>
>
>
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