perlquestion roman <p>I wonder how the fellowmonks pass their model objects into templates. Do you pass directly the objects or do you expand them into individual properties (pass them as hashrefs)?</p> <p>If you use the first method (objects) how do you pass the additional information for the object?</p> <p>Let us say we need to display a list of some kind of payments (DBIx::Class objects). It could be comfortable just:</p> <code> $c->stash(payments => \@payments); </code> <p>But there are other information we need to supply with each payment: <ul> <li>URLs (for payment detail, payment cancellation)</li> <li>textual descriptions for foreign keys values ( payment state, payment method, ...)</li> <li>other payment properties not contained in the payment object. For example whether payment is due (would be displayed in red).</li> </ul> </p> <p>So would you pass the list like this: <code> $c->stash->{payments} = [ map { { is_due => $this->is_due( $c, $_ ), cancel_url => $c->uri_for_action( '/payment/cancel', [ $_->id ] ), detail_url => $c->uri_for_action( '/payment/view', [ $_->id ] ), payment_method => $this->payment_method_descr_for( $c, $_->payment_method_id ), # how about the original object ? payment => $_, # or payment_id => $_->id, payment_quantity => $_->quantity, # .... } } @payments ]; </code> or would you pass just the payments and compute the additional info (and URLs) in template (It doesn't seem very MVCish to me)?</p> <p>Finally how do you pass dates? As objects or formatted already?</p> <p>Any comments are really appreciated.</p>