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Extends Latte templating engine with {const ?} macro for destructuring of objects and arrays inspired by ES2015

Installation

Use composer:

$ composer require wavelo/const-macro

Install in configuration file given Latte\Engine:

$latte = new Latte\Engine;
ConstMacro::install($latte->getCompiler());

When using Nette Dependency Injection, you can install in latte config.neon section:

latte:
  macros:
    - ConstMacro::install

Basic example

Given variable $props = ["title"=>"Hello World", "price"=>123.0] you can take advantage of following syntax:

{const [title:, price:, sale:=false] = $props /}
<h1>{$title}</h1>
<div>Price: {$price}</div>
<div n:if="$sale">Sale: YES</div>

Renders as follows:

<h1>Hello World</h1>
<div>Price: 123</div>

Features

{const ?} macros can be nested
const macro applies block scope for used variable
can be used inside {foreach ?} instead of $value (or both destructuring and $value)
every element can have arbitrary default value (even nested arrays or containing function call)
supports nested destructuring
supports ...rest operator
supports destructuring of both arrays and objects

For more examples see tests. Short demonstration:

{foreach $data as $key => [title:, image:[src, width, height], ...rest]}
  {* scope of variables $title, $src, etc. is bounded by foreach block! *}
{/foreach}

{foreach $data as $key => $item, [title:]}
  {* variable $item contains full object/array *}
{/foreach}

{const [title:] = $props}
  {* scope of variable $title is bounded by this block const! *}
{/const}

{const [title:] = $props /} {* does not apply block scope *}

Caveats

Syntax

latte macros can't contain curly brackets, object syntax is achieved via colon character.

Syntax examples:

Priority when retrieving values of object

ArrayAccess interface
object properties
values from Iterator or IteratorAggregate (only available when appropriate section uses rest operator)

Rest operator

rest operator is only possible as last token (i.e. [title:, image:, ...item] = $item)
when rest operator is used, value must be array or Traversable object
type of rest value corresponds to type of original value (stdClass when Traversable object, array otherwise)
keys are preserved when associative array is given or at least one value is accessed via key

Block scope

previously non-defined variable will have NULL value after end-of-scope (instead of calling unset function)
{foreach ?} has better performance then original Latte {foreach} + {const ?} inside loop ↳ {foreach ?} variable-scope is applied outside of foreach loop
unpaired {const ? /} macro does not impose variable scope

Default values

opposed to ES2016, default value can't reference previously declared tokens
oneword string tokens in default value do not need to be quoted (similar to Latte short-array syntax)
when default value contains function/method call, it is called only when required (provided value is NULL or key is not present)
this extension does not check full syntactic validity of default value
when default value with valid syntax is given, parser should handle it correctly

Others

evaluation starts from rightmost token (like PHP7 nested list)
requires at least PHP 5.5, fully supports PHP 7.0
when destructuring scalar or empty value, ConstMacro\RuntimeException is thrown (applied recursively)
thrown exception can be suppressed with default value (i.e. [title:, image:[src, width, height]=[]] = $item)

License

MIT. See full license.

wavelo / const-macro

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