I just wanted some different examples of types of plugin usage, the documentation is a little sparse on cookbook examples.
My example:
package MyHungryHippo;
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.16.0;
use base qw[Template::Plugin];
sub new {
my ($class, $context) = @_;
return bless { _context => $context }, $class;
}
sub nomnom {
my $self = shift;
return 'eat it';
}
1;
package main;
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.16.0;
use Test::More;
use_ok 'MyHungryHippo';
use_ok 'Template';
ok my $tt = Template->new({ PLUGINS => { 'HIPPO' => 'MyHungryHippo' }
+});
die $tt->error
if $tt->error;
ok my $tmpl = join('', <DATA>);
ok my $output = $tt->context->process( \$tmpl, {} );
like $output, qr/eat/
or diag $output;
done_testing();
__DATA__
[% USE HIPPO %]
[%- HIPPO.nomnom() -%]