On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:06:31AM +0000, David Precious wrote:

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:46:36 +0000 GJ <gj@freeshell.org> wrote:

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Hi all,

I am migrating a vanilla CGI application that relies on HTML::Template to dancer, and so of course I will use the Dancer::Template::HtmlTemplate library for now.

Where do I feed my usual HTML::Template options like loop_context_vars, global_vars, and so on to the plugin? The source code indicates that there is a %{$self->config} that is passed on to HTML::Template, but its not clear to me when to fill this out.

That should come from the template engine's config in config.yml - so you'd want something like:

engines: HtmlTemplate: loop_context_vars: ... global_var: ...

Whilst that's how it works for all the template engines, it should probably be documented better - I'll try to find a moment to update the docs to show an example.

Thanks for this information! Then for hypothetical savings, to turn off or on particular settings for a given route, I'd have to do something like this I suppose: config->{engines}->{HtmlTemplate}->{expensive_option} = 0 et cetera? Thanks, GJ