dishwasher

If you like plates, you will love dishwasher.

This nice little plates add-on module suddenly evolved from fairy droppings. Now, it's a full-blown dishwasher washing your plates (obviously, you need to fill it with objects).

Read your templates folder:

dishwasher.setFolder(folderwithyourtemplates, [cwd])

Rinse your plates:

dishwasher.rinse(pageobject, arrayofobjects, mapsobject)

The mapsobject holds five plates mapping instances (the must be called pagemap, singelmap, multimap, fragments and collections)

The pageobject can hold several optional data keys. At least it must have two keys: mastertemplate and pagemultiset. mastertemplate is the name of the template which plates should use to renderd the page. pagemultiset is an array of strings. dishwasher will search every object in the arrayofobjects argument with which rinse() was called. If one or more objects with the corresponding string are found they are considered a collection. Collections will always be renderd with a template of the same name from the template folder.

arrayofobjects holds all the data you want to insert into the mastertemplate. Each object should tell dishwasher via a collection key, which collections it belongs to. If the object does not belong to a collection, it should tell dishwasher like so object.collection = 'none'.

pagemap is a plates.Map() which tells dishwasher where and how the keys from pageobject should be replaced/inserted. singlemap and multimap will be used to append additional template partials within your mastertemplate (this is useful if you want to render several collections or lots of fragments and want to keep templates and partials reusable). fragments and collections do the same for objects with no collection and collections in arrayofobjects.

If there are still a lot of question marks popping above your head have a look at the tests.

ENJOY!