I'm sure this is answered somewhere in the docs, but I can't find it (I'm curious why Google returns no matches when doing a site: search on http://template-toolkit.org).

When I use a Template Toolkit plugin -- [% USE my_plugin %] -- how can a plugin determine its own name? I am building stuff that uses plugins in some strange ways and it would be helpful if a plug can "self-identify". I started out by doing something like the following:

  [% USE my_plugin "some_identifier" %]

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However, having to pass that identifier every time means a chance for a typo every time. Further, if a plugin presents a form and later handles the form data (these are Web-based apps I'm working with), I need it to be able to send the user to another page with the same plugin handling the data. Passing the ID in the template means I have to synchronize the ID across templates: not good. Hard-coding the ID into every plugin means one more thing that programmers have to remember, so that's also not a good alternative.

Cheers,
Ovid

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