Thank you both for your answers! Michael Peters wrote: > On 11/13/2009 08:26 AM, Tobias Nissen wrote: >> For the data to be escaped before feeding it to H::T, I'd have to >> add a lot of code, therefore I'd like to avoid this approach. Is >> there any way I can tell H::T to escape Unicode data I feed to it >> with param()? > > You could create a function if you were using HTML::Template::Expr or > you could subclass HTML::Template and change param to first filter > the unicode chars for you. Then pass it off to the base class to do > the rest. Would be an extremely simple subclass.
Indeed...
package MyHT;
use base 'HTML::Template';
sub param { return SUPER::param(escape(@_)) }
sub escape { ... escape magic ... }
1;
Or something like that.
>> If not, then the next best thing would be to create a patched
>> version of H::T for my purposes with a method like param_escape()
>> or sth like that, right?
>
> No, please don't do that. Don't run with a patched version unless
> absolutely necessary. Instead go with a subclass.
You're right, that's the better approach. And at first it seemed like
the right approach for my problem, because I didn't want to walk
through complex data structures to escape characters. I thought it
would be enough to call a simple escaping function[0] for each value
(in (key, value)) param() gets passed. But it turned out to be
insufficient, since I was already passing data structures consisting of
arrays /and/ hashes. Hence I had to walk through the whole shebang...
At that moment a wrapper would just have meant more code, so now I'm
just calling
$ht_params = escape_unicode_for_rtf($ht_params) if $format eq 'rtf';
before passing the parameters to param(). If there were other formats
(and not just RTF) where unicode sequences were to escape, then I'd use
a wrapper to enhance code readability, I think.
[0] i.e. one that takes every argument and escapes unicode sequences in
it. This would work for arrays, hashes and scalars. But that's it then.
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