NAME

Catalyst::View::MojoTemplate - Use Mojolicious Templates for your Catalyst View

SYNOPSIS

    package Example::View::HTML;

    use Moose;
    extends 'Catalyst::View::MojoTemplate';

    __PACKAGE__->config(helpers => +{
      now => sub {
        my ($self, $c, @args) = @_;
        return localtime;
      },
    });

    __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;

Then called from a controller:

    package Example::Controller::Root;

    use Moose;
    use MooseX::MethodAttributes;

    extends 'Catalyst::Controller';

    sub root :Chained(/) PathPart('') CaptureArgs(0) { } 

      sub home :Chained(root) PathPart('') Args(0) {
        my ($self, $c) = @_;
        $c->stash(status => $c->model('Status'));
      }

      sub profile :Chained(root) PathPart(profile) Args(0) {
        my ($self, $c) = @_;
        $c->view('HTML' => 'profile.ep', +{ 
          me => $c->user,
        });
      }

    sub end : ActionClass('RenderView') {}

    __PACKAGE__->config(namespace=>'');
    __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;

DESCRIPTION

Use Mojo::Template as your Catalyst view. While ths might strike some as odd, if you are using both Catalyst and Mojolicious you might like the option to share the template code and expertise. You might also just want to use a Perlish template system rather than a dedicated mini language (such as Xslate) since you already know Perl and don't have the time or desire to become an expert in another system.

This works just like many other Catalyst views. It will load and render a template based on either the current action private name or a stash variable called template. It will use the stash to populate variables in the template. It also offers an alternative interface that lets you set a template in the actual call to the view, and pass variables.

By default we look for templates in $APPHOME/root which is the standard default location for Catalyst templates.

Also like a lot of other template systems you can define helper methods which are injected into your template and can take parameters (including text blocks).

The intention here is to try and make this as similar to how Mojo::Template is used in Mojolicious so that people that need to work in both frameworks could in theory use this view in Catalyst and be able to switch between the two with less trouble (at least for doing view development). To that end we've added some default helpers that hopefully work the same way as they do in Mojolicious. These are helpers for template layouts and includes as well as for sharing data between them. We've also added a 'wrapper' helper because the author has found that feature of Template::Toolkit (Template) to be so useful he would have a hard time living without it. We did not include the Mojolicious tag helpers but there's no reason those could not be added as an add on role at a later date should people take an interest in this thing.

There's an example of sorts in the example directory of the module distribution. You can start the example server with the following command:

     perl -Ilib -I example/lib/ example/lib/Example/Server.pm

NOTE Warning, this is an early access module and I reserve the right to make breaking changes if it turns out I totally confused how Mojolicious works. There's actually not a ton of code here since its just a thin wrapper over Mojo::Template so you should be confortable looking that over and coping if there's issues.

CONFIGURATION

This view defines the following configuration attributes. For the most part these are just pass thru to the underlying Mojo::Template. You would do well to review those docs if you are not familiar.

auto_escape

append

prepend

capture_start

capture_end

encoding

comment_mark

escape_mark

expression_mark

line_start

replace_mark

These are just pass thru to Mojo::Template. See that for details

content_type

The HTTP content-type that is set in the response unless it is already set.

helpers

A hashref of helper functions. For example:

    __PACKAGE__->config(helpers=>+{
      now => sub {
        my ($self, $c, @args) = @_;
        return localtime;
      },
    );

All arguments are passed from the template. If you are building a block helper then the last argument will be a coderef to the enclosed block. You may wish to view the source code around the default helpers for more examples of this.

layout

Set a default layout which will be used if none are defined. Optional.

HELPERS

The following is a list of the default helpers.

layout

    % layout "layout.ep", title => "Hello";
    <h1>The Awesome new Content</h1>
    <p>You are doomed to discover you can never recover from the narcoleptic
    country in which you once stood, where the fires alway burning but there's
    never enough wood</p>

layout sets a global template wrapper around your content. Arguments passed get merged into the stash and are available to the layout. The output of your template is placed into the 'main' content block. See "layout" in Mojolicious::Plugin::DefaultHelpers for more.

include

See "include" in Mojolicious::Plugin::DefaultHelpers

content

See "content" in Mojolicious::Plugin::DefaultHelpers

wrapper

Similar to the layout helper, the wrapper helper wraps the contained content inside a another template. However unlike layout you can have more than one wrapper in your template. Example:

    %= wrapper "wrapper.ep", header => "The Story Begins...", begin
      <p>
        The story begins like many others; something interesting happend to someone
        while sone other sort of interesting thing was happening all over.  And then
        there wre monkeys.  Monkeys are great, you ever get stuck writing a story I
        really recommend adding monkeys since they help the more boring story.
      </p>
    %end

This works similar to the WRAPPER directive in Template::Toolkit, if you are familiar with that system.

AUTHOR

    jnap - John Napiorkowski (cpan:JJNAPIORK)  L<email:jjnapiork@cpan.org>
    With tremendous thanks to SRI and the Mojolicious team!

SEE ALSO

Catalyst, Catalyst::View, Mojolicious

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2020, John Napiorkowski email:jjnapiork@cpan.org

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

cpanm Catalyst::View::MojoTemplate

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Catalyst::View::MojoTemplate