
Web::Template
Introduction
A simple abstraction layer, providing a consistent API for different
template engines. This is designed for use in higher level web frameworks
such as Web::App::Ballet
and Web::App::MVC.
Supported Template Engines
Broken Template Engines
Flower::TAL
An implementation of the TAL/METAL XML-based template languages from Zope.
Wrapper is Web::Template::TAL
I will get this fixed up when I can and re-add it to the list of supported
template engines.
HTML::Template
A template engine inspired by Perl's HTML::Template.
Wrapper is Web::Template::HTML
It had to be removed because of lack of maintenance; in recent times, it couldn't be installed with zef.
Methods
All of the wrapper classes provide common API methods, so as long as your
web framework or application supports the following API, it doesn't have to
worry about the APIs of the individual template engines themselves.
set-path ($path, ...)
Set the directory or directories to find the template files in.
For engines without native support of multiple search paths, or even
file-based templates to begin with, the wrapper classes add such support.
render ($template, ...)
Takes the template name to render, and passes any additional parameters
through to the template engine. Most template engines use named parameters,
but some like Mojo, use positional parameters. This handles both.
Usage
use Web::Template::TAL;
my $engine = Web::Template::TAL.new;
$engine.set-path('./views');
$engine.render('example.xml', :name<Bob>);
See one of the web application frameworks using this for better examples.
TODO
- Add a test suite with all supported template engines covered.
- Add support for the Plosurin template engine.
AUTHOR
Timothy Totten
Source can be located at: https://github.com/raku-community-modules/Web-Template . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2013 - 2019 Timothy Totten
Copyright 2020 - 2022 Raku Community
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.