I have a method that uses Contextual::Return to return either a hash or an object depending on how the method is called.

Ex: 

sub my_method{
  return
        LIST     { $self->get_hash() }
        HASHREF  { $self->get_hash() }
        OBJREF   { $self->get_object()} }
            ;
}

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$self->my_method->get_age('phil') works, and so does $self->my_method->{age}{phil}.

However, when I try to use this method from Template::Toolkit, I only get a value back for $self->my_method->{age}{phil}. I am guess this is because somewhere behind the scenes, Template::Toolkit is asking for all data as a hashref, so that's what my_method will always return.

Is my guess correct? Is there a way to make Template::Toolkit behave 'intelligently', like the perl code works?

Thanks. ~jeff

In reply to Template::Toolkit and Contextual::Return by jatill

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