Re^3: How do you use Template Toolkit with Dancer2?

Thank you for your suggestion.

When I tried to encapsulate this code in a subroutine, and call it in another subroutine, Dancer2 seems to automatically use the main template located in the layout directory as a wrapper to this snippet, as well at to the entire page that generated an undesired visual effect. Ideally, it should be possible to write a simple subroutine that returns a menu, that, in turn can be invoked in some other subroutine that generates an arbitrary form:

 sub dropdown_menu { # should generate only an HTML snippet of a menu
  #my ..arguments..;

 return  template 'form_menu.tt', { ...argument hash...  };
}
.
.
.

get '/' => sub { # generates the actual form that is used as [% conten
+t %] in the layout/main.tt template

  template 'some_form.tt', {
      menu1  => dropdown_menu(...parameters1...),
      menu2  => dropdown_menu(...parameters2...),
      radio1 => radio_group(...parameters3...),
      .
      . 
  }
}
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Does that make sense, or am I accidentally breaking some Dancer2 paradigm? I apologize if this question is trivial.

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Re^4: How do you use Template Toolkit with Dancer2? by choroba (Cardinal) on Apr 27, 2022 at 18:36 UTC
Yes, you're breaking the Model - View - Controller paradigm. You can include the dropdown menu template from other templates, sending only the data from the code (i.e. no "dropdown_menu" in the code). `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: How do you use Template Toolkit with Dancer2? by PiotrS (Novice) on Apr 29, 2022 at 01:07 UTC
Thank you for your answer. If a menu template can be included in a "parent" template, how would one go about including two or more menus in the "parent" template, where the difference is only the menu's name and the data-set. Wouldn't that introduce ambiguity to the assignment of variables within the menu template?	[reply]
Re^6: How do you use Template Toolkit with Dancer2? by choroba (Cardinal) on Apr 29, 2022 at 07:30 UTC
That's why templates have their arguments, too. See INCLUDE: `[% INCLUDE template var = val, ... %]` [download] `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l] [select]