[Templates] Stringifying objects in templates

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I ran into an interesting issue last night trying to get an unusual
situation to work. I have a Class::DBI object which has a has_many
relationship for objects representing dates. Like so:

# perl code
package Class;
...
Class->has_many(class_dates' => Schedule, 'class_id');

package Schedule;
Schedule->columns(Essential=>qw(class_date...));
Schedule->has_a(class_date => Class::Date);

In the template I wanted to take the stringified class_date object
("2004-10-25 09:00:00") and split on the white space to get the
individual day and hour components. My first thought was:

  [day, time] = schedule.class_date.split(' ');

But this tried calling the split() method on the Class::Date object
rather than the stringified version. So then I tried:

  [day, time] = ${date.class_date}.split(' ');

Which just gave me a syntax error. I've since switched to a better
method which avoids this issue. But I'm curious how I would go about
this? The trick seems to be forcing TT to use the variable as a string
rather than an object.

Drew
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