liquid-node/src/liquid/tags/increment.coffee

Node.js port of Tobias Lütke's Liquid template engine.

Liquid = require "../../liquid"

# increment is used in a place where one needs to insert a counter
#     into a template, and needs the counter to survive across
#     multiple instantiations of the template.
#     (To achieve the survival, the application must keep the context)
#
#     if the variable does not exist, it is created with value 0.

#   Hello: {% increment variable %}
#
# gives you:
#
#    Hello: 0
#    Hello: 1
#    Hello: 2
#

module.exports = class Increment extends Liquid.Tag
  constructor: (template, tagName, markup) ->
    @variable = markup.trim()
    super

  render: (context) ->
    value = context.environments[0][@variable] ?= 0
    context.environments[0][@variable] = value + 1
    String(value)