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I'm no Template::Toolkit expert and and it's not clear to me how you wanna use the constants, since you gave no example°.

I just skimmed thru the docs and found two possible approaches:

  • Template Variables
    my $tt = Template->new({ VARIABLES => { version => 3.14, release => 'Sahara', }, }); my $vars = { serial_no => 271828, }; $tt->process('myfile', $vars);
  • Compile Time Constant Folding
    my $tt = Template->new({ CONSTANTS => { version => 3.14, release => 'skyrocket', col => { back => '#ffffff', fore => '#000000', }, myobj => My::Object->new(), mysub => sub { ... }, joint => ', ', }, });
Constants in Perl are just implemented as subs with empty prototype

Hence you could write a sub current_constants() which is introspecting your current package and return a list of pairs which maps each constant to it's name. Another way could be to check the exporter settings of the defining package.

my $tt = Template->new({ CONSTANTS => { current_constants() }, });

Once this works you should also be able to write a TT plugin to do this automatically.

Question That's what you want?

update

°) this was written before the OP added his "EDIT" section.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery


In reply to Re: Import Constants From File to Templates? by LanX
in thread Import Constants From File to Templates? by varanasi

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