Re: [Templates] correct usage of Dumper plugin

> Someone else has also suggested that - it doesn;t actually seem to work

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Jamie Echlin wrote:

> Someone else has also suggested that - it doesn;t actually seem to work
> but I'm assuming it's because there is some hidden USE Dumper that I
> haven't found, and it does work.

Jamie,

OK, sorry for the poorly researched reply.  How about this?

  [% USE Dumper( Indent=0 ) %]

then later in your HTML:

  [% Dumper.dump_html( data ) %]

and somewhere in your plain text:

  [% Dumper.dump( data ) %]

The difference between dump and dump_html is just the addition of
these transformations in dump_html:

  s/&/&amp;/g;
  s/</&lt;/g;
  s/>/&gt;/g;
  s/\n/<br>\n/g;

Which all seem like things you would want to happen when dumping to
a browser.

BTW, it seems like the reason my previous suggestion doesn't work is
because setting the Indent and Pad via the constructor seem to be
setting the correlating $Data::Dumper::Indent and $Data::Dumper::Pad
values globally, which will affect ever Template::Plugin::Dumper
object.  I imagine that's one of the reasons why the author created
a dump_html method.

Hope that helps,

Dave

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