[Templates] Re: DateTime not working with TT

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For grins I commented the 'cmp' overloading and now it works:

DateTime.pm line 58:

use overload ( 'fallback' => 1,
                '<=>' => '_compare_overload',
#               'cmp' => '_compare_overload',
                '""'  => 'iso8601',
                '-'   => '_subtract_overload',
                '+'   => '_add_overload',
              );



>I'm having a problem getting access to DateTime object functions inside a 
>template.
>
>The code looks like this:
>
>test.pl:
>
>--------------------
>
>use Template;
>use Template::Plugin::DateTime;
>my $template = Template->new({
>     INCLUDE_PATH => "/tmp",
>     PLUGIN_BASE => 'Plugin',
>     COMPILE_DIR => '/tmp',
>     DEFAULT => '404.html',
>});
>
>my $output;
>
>$template->process('test.html', $vars, \$output) or die $template->error();
>print $output;
>
>--------------------
>
>test.html:
>
>[% USE date = DateTime(today = 1) %]
>Today is [% date.year %]/[% date.month %]/[% date.day %].
>[% date.add(days => 32) %]
>32 days from today is [% date.year %]/[% date.month %]/[% date.day %]
>
>--------------------
>
>The result is:
>
>undef error - Cannot compare a datetime to a regular scalar at 
>/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/mach/DateTime.pm line 1255.
>
>Basically, it looks like it's passing the time scalar instead of the 
>object (it's doing a compare of values instead of a call to the year 
>method. I can confirm this by looking at the input to the 
>DateTime::_compare function is, which shows as "2004-10-14T00:00:00", the 
>same thing I get if I create a new DateTime object and do "print $datetime_obj"
>
>I've tried to get this working using the Template::Plugin::DateTime module 
>(used above) and by passing the DateTime obj as a var into the TT - both 
>attempts gave the same result.
>
>As I said, it appears that this is TT not knowing that I want to call date 
>as an obj not a hash or scalar (and the obj can be both).  OT: oddly, so 
>can Time::Piece and that works as expected.
>
>Has anyone gotten this working?
>
>Vitals:
>
>FreeBSD: 4.10
>Perl: v5.6.1
>TT: Template-Toolkit-2.13
>Template-Plugin-DateTime-0.01
>DateTime-0.21
>
>Thanks!


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