How can I pass to templates a hash or a hash ref variable?

For example: If I have an object on the page with properties Name, Size, ... then I use in templates <%Name%>, <%Size%> and the question is if is possible use of <%Object->{Name}%>, <%Object->{Size}%>
Ok, it is possible using loops but not in all cases.

If you can use <%Name%> why would you want <%Object->{Name}%> ?

Hi!

I can have more object types with property Name, and then <%Name%> don't works, but <%Object1Name%>, <%Object2Name%> don't look effective

Hi,

You can't access hash's in the template. The only time you can is when you have an array of hashes, in that case you can use loops. Each time through the loop, the hash is available.

So you can do:

GT::Template->parse('file.html', { hash_loop => [ $hash1, $hash2, $hash3 ] });

<%loop hash_loop%>
Name: <%Name%>
<%endloop%>

Hope that helps,

Alex
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Hi,

but I need something else, for example

$Object1 = { Name => 'aa', Description => 'bb'}
$Object2 = { Name => 'cc', Content => 'dd'}

and the result of teplate parsing must be:

Name1: aa, Name2: cc, Description: bb, Content: dd

(template is: Name1: <%???%>, Name2: <%???%>, Description: <%???%>, Content: <%???%>)

How can I do it?

You could do:

GT::Template->parse ('file.html', { Name1 => $Object1->{Name}, Name2 => $Object2->{Name} ... });

and then use <%Name1%>, <%Name2%>. If the value of a tag is a hash, there is no way in the template to access it. You could use a global though:

sub {
my $tags = shift;
return "Name1: $tags->{Object1}->{Name}, Name2: $tags->{Object2}->{Name} ... ";
}

Cheers,

Alex
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Ok. Thanks.

My question was if this way is the only one.

Now, when I obtain hash refs from $sth->fetchrow_hashref from several tables with some coincident keys, I must rename this keys and it takes time

Probably I will try in future to modify Template module for my needs

To prefix the hash, you could do:

%hash = map { 'Object1_' . $_ => $obj1->{$_} } keys %hash;

and that will prepend 'Object1_' to every key. Modifying GT::Template would not be easy. =)

Cheers,

Alex
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