[Templates] Two Template Questions about Calling Objects

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Hi all, have a few questions and hoped you could shed
some light on them for me.

First, what I'm trying to do.  I have a template
List.tt2 which gets called with a hash:
%hash = (
  list => [GetListOfObjects],
  data => \%another_hash,
);

In List, I want to call loop through list, something
like
Before Objects
[% FOR field=list %]
  [% field.writeHTML() %]
[% END %]
After Objects

(Please forgive me if my syntax is off - I'm writing
off the top of my head here)

writeHTML () {
  # Write some output using ANOTHER template:
  # Object.tt2
}

Question 0:  Is this a dumb way to do it?

Question 1:
If I try this, I get:
Before Objects
After Objects
# some output from Object.tt2 comes here

I tried setting $| = 1 to flush output, but that's not
helping.  Should writeHTML() be returning a string of
the HTML?

Question 2:
I want to pass %another_hash from List.tt2 to
writeHTML().  If I try writeHTML(another_hash), then I
don't get it as a flat hash ('colour' => 'Green',
etc...) but as a reference to a hash.  Can I "expand"
it in any way?

If this were Perl, I'd do writeHTML(%$another_hash),
but it's not Perl...

Thanks for pointers/help/etc :)

--Peter


		
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