NAME

Any::Renderer::Template - render data structure using a template

SYNOPSIS

  use Any::Renderer;

  my %options = ( 'Template'  => 'path/to/template.tmpl' );

  my $format = "HTML::Template";
  my $r = new Any::Renderer ( $format, \%options );

  my $data_structure = [...]; # arbitrary structure code
  my $string = $r->render ( $data_structure );

You can get a list of all formats that this module handles using the following syntax:

  my $list_ref = Any::Renderer::Template::available_formats ();

Also, determine whether or not a format requires a template with requires_template:

  my $bool = Any::Renderer::Template::requires_template ( $format );

DESCRIPTION

Any::Renderer::Template renders any Perl data structure passed to it with Any::Template. The Any::Template backend used depends on the 'format' parameter passed to the object constructor.

Templates expressed as filenames are cached using a package-level in-memory cache with Cache::AgainstFile. This will stat the file to validate the cache before using the cached object, so if the template is updated, this will be immediately picked up by all processes holding a cached copy.

FORMATS

All the formats supported by Any::Template. Try this to find out what's available on your system:

  perl -MAny::Renderer::Template -e "print join(qq{\n}, sort @{Any::Renderer::Template::available_formats()})"

An Any::Template format is also provided. This uses the default backend (as specified in the ANY_TEMPLATE_DEFAULT environment variable).

METHODS

$r = new Any::Renderer::Template($format,\%options)

See "FORMATS" for a description of valid values for $format. See "OPTIONS" for a description of valid %options.

$scalar = $r->render($data_structure)

The main method.

$bool = Any::Renderer::Template::requires_template($format)

This will be true for these formats.

$list_ref = Any::Renderer::Template::available_formats()

This will discover the formats supported by your Any::Template installation.

OPTIONS

Template (aka TemplateFilename)

Name of file containing template. Mandatory unless TemplateString is defined.

TemplateString

String containing template. Mandatory unless Template or TemplateFilename is defined.

NoCache

Suppress in-memory caching of templates loaded from the filesystem.

TemplateOptions

A hashref of options for the backend templating engine.

If TemplateOptions is not explicitly specified, all options passed to this module that are not recognised will be passed through Any::Template (via the Options constructor option) to the backend templating engine for the rendering process. This flatter options structure may be more convenient but does introduce the risk of a nameclash between an option name in an obscure back-end templating module and an option specific to Any::Render::Template - it's your choice.

Further information on the options for each backend module can be found in the documentation for Any::Template::$backend or the documentation for the backend templating module itself.

GLOBAL VARIABLES

The package-level template cache is created on demand the first time it's needed. There are a few global variables which you can tune before it's created (i.e. before you create any objects):

$Any::Renderer::Template::CacheMaxItems

Maximum number of template objects held in the cache. Default is 1000.

$Any::Renderer::Template::CacheMaxAtime

Items older than this will be purged from the cache when the next purge() call happens. In Seconds. Default is 6 hours.

$Any::Renderer::Template::CachePurgeInterval

How often to purge the cache. In Seconds. Default is 1 hour.

ENVIRONMENT

Set the ANY_RENDERER_AT_SAFE environment variable to a true value if you want to check each Any::Template backend compiles before adding it to the list of available formats. This is safer in that modules with missing dependencies are not advertised as available but it incurs a CPU and memory overhead.

SEE ALSO

Any::Template, Any::Renderer, Cache::AgainstFile

VERSION

$Revision: 1.21 $ on $Date: 2006/09/04 12:15:53 $ by $Author: johna $

AUTHOR

Matt Wilson and John Alden <cpan _at_ bbc _dot_ co _dot_ uk>

COPYRIGHT

(c) BBC 2006. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the GNU GPL.

See the file COPYING in this distribution, or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

cpanm Any::Renderer

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Any::Renderer