In any case, I've since realized that what I was trying to do isn't terribly necessary in the first place, so I'll not worry about it.
-Brad
On Feb 13, 2004, at 3:51 AM, Harald Joerg wrote:
Brad Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Simple task, or at least you'd think so.
I want to load the source for a template file by filename, utilizing the template path search support in Template Toolkit. I've been able to retrieve a Template::Document, but I have no access to the source of the template itself.
Template::Provider has the path search code, but right after _load-ing the template, it compiles it, overwriting the text element of the hash which held the source.
The end goal here is to preprocess the template source, then recompile and update the Template::Document.
Just guessing - your "preprocess" is not TT's preprocess, but some other form of munging the template *before* TT gets its hands at it?
I recall that I've done something like that in the past, and without any hacking^Wsubclassing of TT modules....
1) Slurp your file into a TT variable with
[% template_source = INSERT template.file.name %]
2) Do whatever you want to template_source. If your preprocessor is Perl, feed the variable to a plugin or filter wrapper for your preprocessor.
3) update using the eval filter:
[% template_source | eval %]
-- HTH, haj
-- Brad Choate http://bradchoate.com/
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