Template::Alloy::Compile(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     Template::Alloy::Compile(3pm)

NAME

       Template::Alloy::Compile - Compile role - allows for compiling the AST to perl code

DESCRIPTION

       The Template::Alloy::Compile role allows for taking the AST returned by the Parse role, and translating it into a perl code document.  This
       is in contrast Template::Alloy::Play which executes the AST directly.

TODO

       o   Translate compile_RAWPERL to actually output rather than calling play_RAWPERL.

ROLE METHODS

       "compile_tree"
	   Takes an AST returned by parse_tree and translates it into perl code using functions stored in the $DIRECTIVES hashref.

	   A template that looked like the following:

	       Foo
	       [% GET foo %]
	       [% GET bar %]
	       Bar

	   would parse to the following perl code:

	       # Generated by Template::Alloy::Compile v1.001 on Thu Jun  7 12:58:33 2007
	       # From file /home/paul/bar.tt

	       my $blocks = {};
	       my $meta   = {};
	       my $code   = sub {
		   my ($self, $out_ref, $var) = @_;

		   $$out_ref .= 'Foo';

		   # "GET" Line 2 char 2 (chars 6 to 15)
		   $var = $self->play_expr(['foo', 0]);
		   $$out_ref .= defined($var) ? $var : $self->undefined_get(['foo', 0]);

		   # "GET" Line 3 char 2 (chars 22 to 31)
		   $var = $self->play_expr(['bar', 0]);
		   $$out_ref .= defined($var) ? $var : $self->undefined_get(['bar', 0]);

		   $$out_ref .= 'Bar';

		   return 1;
	       };

	       {
		   blocks => $blocks,
		   meta   => $meta,
		   code   => $code,
	       };

	   As you can see the output is quite a bit more complex than the AST, but under mod_perl conditions, the perl will run faster than
	   playing the AST each time.

       "compile_expr"
	   Takes an AST variable or expression and returns perl code that can lookup the variable.

AUTHOR

       Paul Seamons <paul at seamons dot com>

LICENSE

       This module may be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2008-09-17					     Template::Alloy::Compile(3pm)