class ActionView::Template - actionpack-3.2.22 Documentation

# class ActionView::Template

# Action View Template¶ ↑

# Action View Template Handlers¶ ↑

# Action View Text Template¶ ↑

### Constants

Finalizer

  This finalizer is needed (and exactly with a proc inside another proc) otherwise templates leak in development.

### Attributes

formats[RW]
handler[R]
identifier[R]
locals[RW]
original_encoding[R]
source[R]
updated_at[R]
virtual_path[RW]

### Public Class Methods

new(source, identifier, handler, details) click to toggle source

    # File lib/action_view/template.rb, line 115
    def initialize(source, identifier, handler, details)
      format = details[:format] || (handler.default_format if handler.respond_to?(:default_format))

      @source            = source
      @identifier        = identifier
      @handler           = handler
      @compiled          = false
      @original_encoding = nil
      @locals            = details[:locals] || []
      @virtual_path      = details[:virtual_path]
      @updated_at        = details[:updated_at] || Time.now
      @formats = Array.wrap(format).map { |f| f.is_a?(Mime::Type) ? f.ref : f }
      @compile_mutex     = Mutex.new
    end

### Public Instance Methods

encode!() click to toggle source

This method is responsible for properly setting the encoding of the source. Until this point, we assume that the source is BINARY data. If no additional information is supplied, we assume the encoding is the same as `Encoding.default_external`.

The user can also specify the encoding via a comment on the first line of the template (# encoding: NAME-OF-ENCODING). This will work with any template engine, as we process out the encoding comment before passing the source on to the template engine, leaving a blank line in its stead.

    # File lib/action_view/template.rb, line 188
    def encode!
      return unless source.encoding_aware? && source.encoding == Encoding::BINARY

      # Look for # encoding: *. If we find one, we'll encode the
      # String in that encoding, otherwise, we'll use the
      # default external encoding.
      if source.sub!(/\A#{ENCODING_FLAG}/, '')
        encoding = magic_encoding = $1
      else
        encoding = Encoding.default_external
      end

      # Tag the source with the default external encoding
      # or the encoding specified in the file
      source.force_encoding(encoding)

      # If the user didn't specify an encoding, and the handler
      # handles encodings, we simply pass the String as is to
      # the handler (with the default_external tag)
      if !magic_encoding && @handler.respond_to?(:handles_encoding?) && @handler.handles_encoding?
        source
      # Otherwise, if the String is valid in the encoding,
      # encode immediately to default_internal. This means
      # that if a handler doesn't handle encodings, it will
      # always get Strings in the default_internal
      elsif source.valid_encoding?
        source.encode!
      # Otherwise, since the String is invalid in the encoding
      # specified, raise an exception
      else
        raise WrongEncodingError.new(source, encoding)
      end
    end

inspect() click to toggle source

    # File lib/action_view/template.rb, line 174
    def inspect
      @inspect ||= defined?(Rails.root) ? identifier.sub("#{Rails.root}/", '') : identifier
    end

mime_type() click to toggle source

    # File lib/action_view/template.rb, line 151
    def mime_type
      @mime_type ||= Mime::Type.lookup_by_extension(@formats.first.to_s) if @formats.first
    end

refresh(view) click to toggle source

Receives a view object and return a template similar to self by using @virtual_path.

This method is useful if you have a template object but it does not contain its source anymore since it was already compiled. In such cases, all you need to do is to call refresh passing in the view object.

Notice this method raises an error if the template to be refreshed does not have a virtual path set (true just for inline templates).

    # File lib/action_view/template.rb, line 163
    def refresh(view)
      raise "A template needs to have a virtual path in order to be refreshed" unless @virtual_path
      lookup  = view.lookup_context
      pieces  = @virtual_path.split("/")
      name    = pieces.pop
      partial = !!name.sub!(/^_/, "")
      lookup.disable_cache do
        lookup.find_template(name, [ pieces.join('/') ], partial, @locals)
      end
    end

render(view, locals, buffer=nil, &block) click to toggle source

Render a template. If the template was not compiled yet, it is done exactly before rendering.

This method is instrumented as “!render_template.action_view”. Notice that we use a bang in this instrumentation because you don’t want to consume this in production. This is only slow if it’s being listened to.

    # File lib/action_view/template.rb, line 142
    def render(view, locals, buffer=nil, &block)
      ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrument("!render_template.action_view", :virtual_path => @virtual_path) do
        compile!(view)
        view.send(method_name, locals, buffer, &block)
      end
    rescue Exception => e
      handle_render_error(view, e)
    end

supports_streaming?() click to toggle source

Returns if the underlying handler supports streaming. If so, a streaming buffer may be passed when it start rendering.

    # File lib/action_view/template.rb, line 132
    def supports_streaming?
      handler.respond_to?(:supports_streaming?) && handler.supports_streaming?
    end