On Thu, 21 May 2015 12:08:32 +0100 Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 13:04 +0300, Kadir Beyazlı wrote:
main.tt is loaded if I use a template at my code. What is the reason main.tt is not loaded if I don't use a template?
The idea is that you can have full control as to what you return to the browser. For example, you might want to return only some simple plain text, or maybe send a file to the browser, in which case wrapping in the main layout would break things.
^ This is indeed the right answer - applying the layout is part of the template processing - so if you've used template() to generate content from a template, the layout is applied, but if you've just returned content, it's assumed that that's the content you want sent to the client - in other words, whatever the route handler returns is what goes to the client, whether that's the result of a template() call, or just some content you generated. If you want to apply the layout around some generated content without having to put it in a template file, you can use the template engine's apply_layout() method to do it, e.g.: get '/' => sub { # get the template engine my $template_engine = engine 'template'; # apply the layout (not the renderer), and return the result return $template_engine->apply_layout("Home Page"); }; -- David Precious ("bigpresh") <davidp@preshweb.co.uk> http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedin www.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/cpan www.preshweb.co.uk/github