New In 1.2: Dump (And Now, Print!)

A couple of hours of hackery and I've added a very useful new tool to Minx: The [dump] tag.

The dump tag comes in five forms: HTML, XML, HTML table, JSON, and text.  What it does is simple: You give it a tag, or a list of tags, and it dumps the tag data in an appropriate format.  The one trick is that if you give it the name of an object, it dumps all the fields and sub-fields for you automatically.

This makes it trivial to write, for example, an export routine.  This will do it:

[posts count=9999]
<post>
[print.xml post]
[comments]
<comment>
[print.xml comment]
</comment>
[/comments]
</post>
[/posts]

Also very handy for writing APIs like, oh, OpenSocial or MetaWeblog.  Should I happen to be considering doing that...

Come to think of it, that dump routine would be less than ideal, since it would expand out all the auto-format options.  And there are a lot of those.

Want to see just how much data Minx gives you for a single post?  Hit the extended entry.

Update: Okay, I've added a [print] tag which strips out most of the excess baggage.  So [dump] to get the entire contents of an object, and [print] to get the useful contents.

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