NAME

Text::MicroMason::Filters - Add Output Filters like "|h" and "|u"

SYNOPSIS

Instead of using this class directly, pass its name to be mixed in:

    use Text::MicroMason;
    my $mason = Text::MicroMason->new( -Filters );

Use the standard compile and execute methods to parse and evalute templates:

  print $mason->compile( text=>$template )->( @%args );
  print $mason->execute( text=>$template, @args );

Enables filtering of template expressions using HTML::Mason's conventions:

    <%args> $name </%args>
    Welcome, <% $name |h %>! 
    <a href="more.masn?name=<% $name |u %>">Click for More</a>

You can set a default filter and override it with the "n" flag:

    my $mason = Text::MicroMason->new( -Filters, default_filters => 'h' );

    <%args> $name </%args>
    Welcome, <% $name %>! 
    <a href="more.masn?name=<% $name |nu %>">Click for More</a>

You can define additional filters and stack them:

    my $mason = Text::MicroMason->new( -Filters );
    $mason->filter_functions( myfilter => \&function );
    $mason->filter_functions( uc => sub { return uc( shift ) } );

    <%args> $name </%args>
    Welcome, <% $name |uc,myfilter %>! 

DESCRIPTION

This module enables the filtering of expressions before they are output, using HTML::Mason's "|hun" syntax.

If you have HTML::Entities and URI::Escape available they are loaded to provide the default "h" and "u" filters. If those modules can not be loaded, no error message is produced but any subsequent use of them will fail.

Attempted use of an unknown filter name will croak with a message stating "No definition for a filter named 'h'".

Public Methods

filter_functions

Gets and sets values from the hash mapping filter flags to functions.

If called with no arguments, returns a hash of all available filter flags and functions:

  %functions = $mason->filter_functions();

If called with a filter flag returns the associated function, or if provided with a reference to an array of flag names returns a list of the functions:

  $function  = $mason->filter_functions( $flag );
  @functions = $mason->filter_functions( \@flags );

If called with one or more pairs of filter flags and associated functions, adds them to the hash. (Any filter that might have existed with the same flag name is overwritten.)

  $mason->filter_functions( $flag => $function, ... );

Supported Attributes

default_filters

Optional comma-separated string of filter flags to be applied to all output expressions unless overridden by the "n" flag.

Private Methods

assemble()

This method goes through the lexed template tokens looking for uses of filter flags, which it then rewrites as appropriate method calls before passing the tokens on to the superclass.

parse_filters

Parses one or more strings containing any number of filter flags and returns a list of flags to be used.

  @flags = $mason->parse_filters( @filter_strings );

Flags should be separated by commas, except that the commas may be omitted when using a combination of single-letter flags. Flags are applied from left to right. Any use of the "n" flag wipes out all flags defined to the left of it.

get_filter_functions

Accepts filter flags or function references and returns a list of the corresponding functions. Dies if an unknown filter flag is used.

  @functions = $mason->get_filter_functions( @flags_or_functions );

filter

Applies one or more filters to the provided content string.

  $result = $mason->filter( @flags_or_functions, $content );

SEE ALSO

For an overview of this templating framework, see Text::MicroMason.

This is a mixin class intended for use with Text::MicroMason::HTMLMason.

For distribution, installation, support, copyright and license information, see Text::MicroMason::Docs::ReadMe.