Hi monks, I thought I'd have a bash at a Dancer2 project but I'm having a slight problem with the TT DEFAULT directive. I'm using dbix class to return a single row from a database, then passing the output to a template: 
my $rs = schema->resultset('Payment')
                ->find({id => route_parameters->get('code')});
template 'form', {'element' => $rs};

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At the top of my form template I have the following to set default values for values which could be null in element: 
{{ DEFAULT 
            element.email = 'email'
            element.price = '0'
            element.date = 'date'
            element.title = 'title'
}}

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This doesn't work though. Even if the keys have values the DEFAULT values are applied. I did find this post http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=133377, but I still can't see what I'm doing wrong. I'm not looping through element I'm just printing each value out at different points in the template. Can anyone advise please?

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