NAME¶

Dancer2::Template::TemplateToolkit - Template toolkit engine for Dancer2

VERSION¶

version 1.1.2

SYNOPSIS¶

To use this engine, you may configure Dancer2 via "config.yaml":

    template:   "template_toolkit"

Or you may also change the rendering engine on a per-route basis by setting it manually with "set":

    # code code code
    set template => 'template_toolkit';

Most configuration variables available when creating a new instance of a Template::Toolkit object can be declared inside the template toolkit section on the engines configuration in your config.yml file. For example:

  engines:
    template:
      template_toolkit:
        start_tag: '<%'
        end_tag:   '%>'

(Note: "start_tag" and "end_tag" are regexes. If you want to use PHP-style tags, you will need to list them as "<\?" and "\?>".) See Template::Manual::Config for the configuration variables.

In addition to the standard configuration variables, the option "show_private_variables" is also available. Template::Toolkit, by default, does not render private variables (the ones starting with an underscore). If in your project it gets easier to disable this feature than changing variable names, add this option to your configuration.

        show_private_variables: true

Warning: Given the way Template::Toolkit implements this option, different Dancer2 applications running within the same interpreter will share this option!

DESCRIPTION¶

This template engine allows you to use Template::Toolkit in Dancer2.

METHODS¶

ADVANCED CUSTOMIZATION¶

Template::Toolkit allows you to replace certain parts, like the internal STASH (Template::Stash). In order to do that, one usually passes an object of another implementation such as Template::Stash::AutoEscaping into the constructor.

Unfortunately that is not possible when you configure Template::Toolkit from your Dancer2 configuration file. You cannot instantiate a Perl object in a yaml file. Instead, you need to subclass this module, and use the subclass in your configuration file.

A subclass to use the aforementioned Template::Stash::AutoEscaping might look like this:

    package Dancer2::Template::TemplateToolkit::AutoEscaping;
    # or MyApp::
    
    use Moo;
    use Template::Stash::AutoEscaping;
    
    extends 'Dancer2::Template::TemplateToolkit';
    
    around '_build_engine' => sub {
        my $orig = shift;
        my $self = shift;
    
        my $tt = $self->$orig(@_);
    
        # replace the stash object
        $tt->service->context->{STASH} = Template::Stash::AutoEscaping->new(
            $self->config->{STASH}
        );
    
        return $tt;
    };
    
    1;

You can then use this new subclass in your config file instead of "template_toolkit".

    # in config.yml
    engines:
      template:
        TemplateToolkit::AutoEscaping:
          start_tag: '<%'
          end_tag:   '%>'
          # optional arguments here
          STASH:

The same approach should work for SERVICE (Template::Service), CONTEXT (Template::Context), PARSER (Template::Parser) and GRAMMAR (Template::Grammar). If you intend to replace several of these components in your app, it is suggested to create an app-specific subclass that handles all of them at the same time.

    # in config.yml
    engines:
      template:
        template_toolkit:
          start_tag: '<%'
          end_tag:   '%>'
          COMPILE_EXT: '.tcc' # cached file extension

SEE ALSO¶

Dancer2, Dancer2::Core::Role::Template, Template::Toolkit.

AUTHOR¶

Dancer Core Developers

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶

This software is copyright (c) 2024 by Alexis Sukrieh.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.