NAME
Template::Plugin::DataPrinter - Template Toolkit dumper plugin using Data::Printer
VERSION
version 0.001
SYNOPSIS
[% USE DataPrinter %]
[% DataPrinter.dump(variable) %]
[% DataPrinter.dump_html(variable) %]DESCRIPTION
This is a dumper plugin for Template::Toolkit which uses Data::Printer instead of Data::Dumper.
Data::Printer is a colorised pretty-printer with nicely human-readable object output.
METHODS
The provided methods match those of Template::Plugin::Dumper.
dump
Generates an ansi-colorised dump of the data structures passed.
[% USE DataPrinter %]
[% DataPrinter.dump(myvar) %]
[% DataPrinter.dump(myvar, yourvar) %]dump_html
Generates a html-formatted dump of the data structures passed. The ansi colorisation is converted to html by HTML::FromANSI::Tiny.
[% USE DataPrinter %]
[% DataPrinter.dump_html(myvar) %]
[% DataPrinter.dump_html(myvar, yourvar) %]CONFIGURATION
This plugin has no configuration of its own, but the underlying Data::Printer and HTML::FromANSI::Tiny modules can be configured using the dp and hfat parameters.
[% USE DataPrinter(dp = { ... }, hfat = { ... }) %]- dp
-
A hashref containing the params to be passed to
Data::Printer::import.See the Data::Printer documentation for more information.
- hfat
-
A hashref containing the params to be passed to
HTML::FromANSI::Tiny->new.See the HTML::FromANSI::Tiny documentation for more information.
Disabling colorisation
Colorisation is turned on by default. To turn it off, use Data::Printer's colored parameter:
[% USE DataPrinter(dp = { colored = 0 }) %]Using as a drop-in replacement for Template::Plugin::Dumper
This module can be used more-or-less as a drop-in replacement for the default Dumper plugin by specifying an explicit plugin mapping to the Template constructor:
my $template = Template->new(...,
PLUGINS => {
Dumper => 'Template::Plugin::DataPrinter',
},
);Then existing templates such as the one below will automatically use the DataPrinter plugin instead.
[% USE Dumper(Indent=0, Pad="<br>") %]
[% Dumper.dump(variable) %]
[% Dumper.dump_html(variable) %]Any unrecognised constructor parameters are silently ignored, so the Indent and Pad parameters above will have no effect.
Using a custom .dataprinter file
A custom Data::Printer configuration file can be specified like so:
[% USE DataPrinter(dp = { rc_file = '/path/to/my/rcfile.conf' }) %]Beware that setting colored = 0 in your .dataprinter file will not work. This must be specified in the USE DataPrinter code.
[% USE DataPrinter(dp = { rc_file = '...', colored = 0 }) %]BUGS
Setting colored = 0 in the .dataprinter file will not work. The colored = 0 setting must appear in the USE DataPrinter line.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Stephen Thirlwall <sdt@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Stephen Thirlwall.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.