Passing arguments to subroutines using Template Toolkit

[elbie]

Using the process method in the Template Toolkit, I often want to call a subroutine with arguments, as follows:

$some_var = 'Hello world!';
$my_templ->process( "$TEMPLATE_DIR/hello_world.html",
                    { 'filler' => \&some_sub( $some_var ) } );

But when I do that, I get ARRAY(0x84ab2c30) or similar where the replacement happens in the output.

Typically, I've been getting around this by calling the subroutine beforehand:

$some_var = &some_sub( 'Hello world!' );
$my_templ->process( "$TEMPLATE_DIR/hello_world.html",
                    { 'filler' => $some_var } );

but I'd like to avoid this if I can. What is the "proper" way to pass variables?

elbieelbieelbie

[guha]

Never worked with TT but wouldn't this work ??

 { 'filler' => &some_sub( $some_var ) } );

HTH

[elbie]

Grr. Of course this works. sigh. I think I spent too much time looking at the first page of the TT perldoc where it tells me to pass it as a reference. I tried every combination of \&some_sub I could think of...

elbieelbieelbie

[perrin]

You only need to pass the sub as a reference if you plan to call it from within the template. Passing it as a ref lets you do this in your template:

[% filler(some_var) %]

Personally, I like to avoid callbacks from within templates when possible, but this can be useful for things like passing in a subroutine that escapes HTML characters.