NAME

Dancer::Template::Caribou - Template::Caribou wrapper for Dancer

VERSION

version 0.1.1

SYNOPSIS

    # in 'config.yml'
    template: Caribou

    engines:
      template:
        Caribou:
          namespace:    MyApp::View
          auto_reload:  1


    # and then in the application
    get '/' => sub { 
        ...;

        template 'main' => \%options;
    };

DESCRIPTION

Dancer::Template::Caribou is an interface for the Template::Caribou template system. Be forewarned, both this module and Template::Caribou itself are alpha-quality software and are still subject to any changes. <Caveat Maxima Emptor>.

Basic Usage

At the base, if you do

    get '/' => sub {
        ...

        return template 'MyView', \%options;
    };

the template name (here MyView) will be concatenated with the configured view namespace (which defaults to Dancer::View) to generate the Caribou class name. A Caribou object is created using %options as its arguments, and its inner template page is then rendered. In other words, the last line of the code above becomes equivalent to

    return Dancer::View::MyView->new( %options )->render('page');

'/views' template classes

Template classes can be created straight from the /views directory. Any directory containing a file named bou will be turned into a Template::Caribou class. Additionally, any file with a .bou extension contained within that directory will be turned into a inner template for that class.

The 'bou' file

The 'bou' file holds the custom bits of the Template::Caribou class.

For example, a basic welcome template could be:

    # in /views/welcome/bou
    
    use Template::Caribou::Tags::HTML ':all';

    has name => ( is => 'ro' );

    template page => sub {
        my $self = shift;

        html {
            head { title { 'My App' } };
            body {
                h1 { 'hello ' . $self->name .'!' };
            };
        }
    };

which would be invoqued via

    get '/hi/:name' => sub {
        template 'welcome' => { name => param('name') };
    };

The inner template files

All files with a '.bou' extension found in the same directory as the 'bou' file become inner templates for the class. So, to continue with the example above, we could change it into

    # in /views/howdie/bou
    
    use Template::Caribou::Tags::HTML ':all';

    has name => ( is => 'ro' );


    # in /views/howdie/page
    html {
        head { title { 'My App' } };
        body {
            h1 { 'howdie ' . $self->name . '!' };
        };
    }

Layouts as roles

For the layout sub-directory, an additional piece of magic is performed. The 'bou'-marked directories are turned into roles instead of classes, which will be applied to the template class. Again, to take our example:

    # in /views/layouts/main/bou
    # empty file

    # in /views/layouts/main/page
    
    # the import of tags really needs to be here 
    # instead than in the 'bou' file 
    use Template::Caribou::Tags::HTML ':all';

    html {
        head { title { 'My App' } };
        body {
            show( 'inner' );
        };
    }

    # in /views/hullo/bou
    
    use Template::Caribou::Tags::HTML ':all';

    has name => ( is => 'ro' );

    # in /views/howdie/inner
    h1 { 'hullo ' . $self->name . '!' };

CONFIGURATION

namespace

The namespace under which the Caribou classes are created. defaults to Dancer::View.

auto_reload

If set to true, the Caribou object will verify if any of the template files have changed before rendering and, if that's the case, will self-update. Defaults to false.

AUTHOR

Yanick Champoux <yanick@babyl.dyndns.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Yanick Champoux.

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

cpanm Dancer::Template::Caribou

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Dancer::Template::Caribou