Template::Plugin::Handy(3)

NAME
Template::Plugin::Handy - handy vmethods for Template Toolkit

SYNOPSIS
 [% USE Handy;
    mything.dump_data;
    mything.dump_stderr;
    mything.as_json;
 %]

DESCRIPTION
Handy virtual methods I always use in my Template Toolkit files, especially for debugging.

METHODS
Only new or overridden method are documented here.

  dump_data
Replacement for the Dumper plugin. You can call this method on any variable to see its Data::Dump representation in HTML-safe manner.

 [% myvar.dump_data %]

  dump_stderr
Like dump_data but prints to STDERR instead of returning HTML-escaped string. Returns undef.

  as_json
Encode the variable as a JSON string. Wrapper around the JSON->encode method. The string will be encoded as UTF-8, and the special JSON flags for converted_blessed and allow_blessed are "true" by default.

  increment( n )
Increment a scalar number by one. Aliased as a scalar vmethod as 'inc'.

  decrement( n )
Decrement a scalar number by one. Aliased as a scalar vmethod as 'dec'.

  sort_by( method_name )
Sort an array or hash ref of objects according to method_name. The sort assumes a "cmp" comparison and the return value of method_name is run through lc() first.

Returns a new sorted arrayref.

AUTHOR
Peter Karman, "<karman@cpan.org>"

BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-template-plugin-handy@rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute "http://www.msi.umn.edu/" sponsored the development of this software.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2008 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota.

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