Question

In Template Toolkit there’s the RETURN directive which can be used to stop processing the current template and return to the template from which it was called. How can I do this in Mojolicious?

Answer 1

Based on the documentation saying templates work just like Perl subs (actually they get compiled to a Perl sub internally) I did some experiments. It appears that a simple

% return;

returns from a template discarding all its output. And

% return $_M;

returns from a template and keeps all its output generated before the return statement.

Please note that these are unofficial hacks. To find more possibilities to interact with Mojolicious internals you can try

% use Data::Dumper; return Dumper $self;

in your template and see the output and discover pretty much everything that is happening in the compiled templates.