Re: [Templates] Design question

> Now I have a design question. I have an object, which acts (FTMP) like

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 14:58, Buddy Burden wrote:
> Now I have a design question.  I have an object, which acts (FTMP) like 
> a Perl pseudohash.  Specifically, you can use it like a hashref, or like 
> an arrayref.  I use it for storing rows I get back from the database. 
> Consequently, I have lots of arrays of these lying around, which I 
> naturally want to get into templates.
> 
> My first attempt was just to toss an array into the $vars I send to TT2. 
>   This didn't work, of course, because even though you can _use_ it like 
> a hashref, it _isn't_ a hashref.  It's an object.

Actually, a tied hash is not an object.  Maybe you're passing something
else?

I'm not sure about the XS Stash, but the Perl Stash should do the right
thing on tied hashes and arrays, because they return "HASH" or "ARRAY"
in response to ref(), unlike objects.  For demonstration:

use Tie::Hash;

my %hash;
my $obj = tie %hash, 'Tie::StdHash';

my $hash = \%hash;
print "ref: " . (ref $hash) . "\n";
print "ref: " . (ref $obj)  . "\n";

- Perrin

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