Any::Template::Backend - base class for implementing backends for Any::Template
package Any::Template::Backend::MyTemplate;
use MyTemplate;
use Any::Template::Backend;
use vars qw(@ISA);
@ISA = qw(Any::Template::Backend);
sub new {
...
}
This exists purely to be inherited from. It provides some default
implementations of sending output to different sinks based on the lowest
common denominator of returning data to a string or filehandle. You can
override these implementations with more efficient ones where the templating
engine provides them natively.
- $o = new Any::Template::Backend::MyBackend(\%options);
- You MUST supply a constructor. There is no default contructor to inherit.
The constructor will need to marshal the options and create the backend
template object from them. Example implementations can be found in backend
classes included with the distribution.
- $templating_engine = $o->native_object()
- Returns the underlying native template object. You SHOULD supply this
method. Although accessing the underlying object defeats the point of
Any::Template, a valid use is in refactoring code, where dependencies on a
particular engine's API can be eradicated in iterations.
- $data = $o->preprocess($data)
- You CAN supply a method to preprocess the data structure before it's
handed off to one of the process methods listed below. Typically you might
use this to remove some values from the data structure (e.g. globrefs)
that a template backend might not be able to handle. The default
implementation returns $data unmodified.
- $o->process_to_string($data, $scalar_ref)
- You MUST supply this method. Example implementations can be found in
backend classes included with the distribution.
- $o->process_to_filehandle($data, $fh)
- You CAN supply this method. If you don't, output will be collected in a
string and sent to the filehandle.
- $o->process_to_sub($data, \&code)
- You CAN supply this method. If you don't, output will be collected in a
string and sent to the sub.
- $o->process_to_file($data, $filename)
- You CAN supply this method. If you don't, a filehandle will be opened
against this file, and process_to_filehandle will be used to populate
it.
$Revision: 1.8 $ on $Date:
2005/05/08 18:25:16 $ by $Author: johna $
John Alden <cpan _at_ bbc _dot_ co _dot_ uk>
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