Markdown and embedded perl

[daleif]

Do we have a good guide to provide Markdown+Embedded Perl rendering?

I'd like to be able to include some subtemplates, written in Markdown, that may have some EP in them (mostly links from routes).

Just a bit stumped on how to properly approach this.

I'm guessing one will need to provide a handler, that first executes the normal ep handler, and then runs markdown on that?

[christopherraa]

Using Markdent is pretty nice:

sub markdown_to_html($self, $markdown) {
    my $capture;
    open my $fh, '>', \$capture;

    Markdent::Parser->new(
            dialects => ['GitHub', 'Theory'],
            handler  => Markdent::Handler::HTMLStream::Fragment->new(output => $fh)
    )->parse( markdown => $markdown );

    close $fh;

    return $capture;
}

What you are describing (if I understand corectly) with regards to unifying templates rendering markdown and ultimately rendering html (maybe?) should be fairly trivial. I might have totally misunderstood what you are asking though.

[daleif]

Yeah, I don't think this is what I'm after. I am able to hack something using this

Edit: Simpler version (expects template.md.ep eventhough we include via include 'template', format => 'md', handler => 'md')

  $self->renderer->add_handler(
      md => sub ($renderer, $c, $output, $options) {
	  my $s = $c->render_to_string(
	      template => $options->{template},
	      handler => 'ep'
	  );
	  # $s is bytestream
	  $$output = markdown($s->to_string);
      }
  );

Probably need some cache support though