EEx v1.5.0 EEx.Engine behaviour View Source

Basic EEx engine that ships with Elixir.

An engine needs to implement four functions:

  • init(opts) - returns the initial buffer

  • handle_body(quoted) - receives the final built quoted expression, should do final post-processing and return a quoted expression.

  • handle_text(buffer, text) - it receives the buffer, the text and must return a new quoted expression.

  • handle_expr(buffer, marker, expr) - it receives the buffer, the marker, the expr and must return a new quoted expression.

    The marker is what follows exactly after <%. For example, <% foo %> has an empty marker, but <%= foo %> has "=" as marker. The allowed markers so far are: "" and "=".

    Read handle_expr/3 below for more information about the markers implemented by default by this engine.

EEx.Engine can be used directly if one desires to use the default implementations for the functions above.

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Functions

Handles assigns in quoted expressions

The default implementation simply returns the given expression

Implements expressions according to the markers

The default implementation simply concatenates text to the buffer

Returns an empty string as initial buffer

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Link to this function handle_assign(arg) View Source
handle_assign(Macro.t()) :: Macro.t()

Handles assigns in quoted expressions.

A warning will be printed on missing assigns. Future versions will raise.

This can be added to any custom engine by invoking handle_assign/1 with Macro.prewalk/2:

def handle_expr(buffer, token, expr) do
  expr = Macro.prewalk(expr, &EEx.Engine.handle_assign/1)
  EEx.Engine.handle_expr(buffer, token, expr)
end

The default implementation simply returns the given expression.

Link to this function handle_expr(buffer, binary, expr) View Source

Implements expressions according to the markers.

<% Elixir expression - inline with output %>
<%= Elixir expression - replace with result %>

All other markers are not implemented by this engine.

Link to this function handle_text(buffer, text) View Source

The default implementation simply concatenates text to the buffer.

Returns an empty string as initial buffer.

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Link to this callback handle_body(quoted) View Source
handle_body(quoted :: Macro.t()) :: Macro.t()
Link to this callback handle_expr(buffer, marker, expr) View Source
handle_expr(buffer :: Macro.t(), marker :: String.t(), expr :: Macro.t()) :: Macro.t()
Link to this callback handle_text(buffer, text) View Source
handle_text(buffer :: Macro.t(), text :: String.t()) :: Macro.t()