NAME
Template::Plugin::YAML - Plugin interface to YAML
SYNOPSIS
[% USE YAML %]
[% YAML.dump(variable) %]
[% YAML.dump_html(variable) %]
[% value = YAML.undump(yaml_string) %]
[% YAML.dumpfile(filename, variable) %]
[% value = YAML.undumpfile(filename) %]DESCRIPTION
This is a simple Template Toolkit Plugin Interface to the YAML module. A YAML object will be instantiated via the following directive:
[% USE YAML %]As a standard plugin, you can also specify its name in lower case:
[% USE yaml %]METHODS
These are the methods supported by the YAML object.
dump( @variables )
Generates a raw text dump of the data structure(s) passed
[% USE Dumper %]
[% yaml.dump(myvar) %]
[% yaml.dump(myvar, yourvar) %]dump_html( @variables )
Generates a dump of the data structures, as per dump, but with the characters <, > and & converted to their equivalent HTML entities, spaces converted to and newlines converted to <br>.
[% USE yaml %]
[% yaml.dump_html(myvar) %]undump( $string )
Converts a YAML-encoded string into the equivalent data structure. Here's a way to deep-copy a complex structure by completely serializing the data.
[% USE yaml;
yaml_string = yaml.dump(complex_data_structure);
complex_copy = yaml.undump(yaml_string);
%]dumpfile( $file, @variables )
Converts the data to YAML encoding, and dumps it to the specified filepath.
[% USE yaml; yaml.dumpfile(".storage", my_data) %]undumpfile( $file )
Loads the YAML-encoded data from the specified filepath
[% USE yaml; my_data = yaml.undumpfile(".storage") %]AUTHORS
Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>, with undump, undumpfile, and dumpfile implementation by Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
based on Simon Matthews' Template::Plugin::Dumper
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2003, 2008 Richard Clamp All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.