Literal

  - added support for literals [closes Shopify#6]

Code beautifier
  - indented some files

lib/liquid.rb

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ module Liquid
   PartialTemplateParser       = /#{TagStart}.*?#{TagEnd}|#{VariableStart}.*?#{VariableIncompleteEnd}/
   TemplateParser              = /(#{PartialTemplateParser}|#{AnyStartingTag})/
   VariableParser              = /\[[^\]]+\]|#{VariableSegment}+\??/
+  LiteralShorthand            = /^(?:{{{\s?)(.*?)(?:\s*}}})$/
 end
 
 require 'liquid/drop'

lib/liquid/tag.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 module Liquid
 
   class Tag
+
     attr_accessor :nodelist
 
     def initialize(tag_name, markup, tokens)
@@ -19,8 +20,7 @@ def name
     def render(context)
       ''
     end
-  end
-
 
-end
+  end # Tag
 
+end # Tag

lib/liquid/tags/comment.rb

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 module Liquid
-  class Comment < Block                                             
+  class Comment < Block
     def render(context)
       ''
-    end    
+    end
   end
-  
-  Template.register_tag('comment', Comment)  
-end
+
+  Template.register_tag('comment', Comment)
+end

lib/liquid/tags/literal.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+module Liquid
+
+  class Literal < Block
+
+    # Class methods
+
+    # Converts a shorthand Liquid literal into its long representation.
+    #
+    # Currently the Template parser only knows how to handle the long version.
+    # So, it always checks if it is in the presence of a literal, in which case it gets converted through this method.
+    #
+    # Example:
+    #   Liquid::Literal "{{{ hello world }}}" #=> "{% literal %} hello world {% endliteral %}"
+    def self.from_shorthand(literal)
+      literal =~ LiteralShorthand ? "{% literal %}#{$1}{% endliteral %}" : literal
+    end
+
+    # Public instance methods
+
+    def parse(tokens) # :nodoc:
+      @nodelist ||= []
+      @nodelist.clear
+
+      while token = tokens.shift
+        if token =~ FullToken && block_delimiter == $1
+          end_tag
+          return
+        else
+          @nodelist << token
+        end
+      end
+
+      # Make sure that its ok to end parsing in the current block.
+      # Effectively this method will throw and exception unless the current block is
+      # of type Document
+      assert_missing_delimitation!
+    end # parse
+
+  end
+
+  Template.register_tag('literal', Literal)
+end

lib/liquid/template.rb

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def initialize
     # Parse source code.
     # Returns self for easy chaining
     def parse(source)
-      @root = Document.new(tokenize(source))
+      @root = Document.new(tokenize(Liquid::Literal.from_shorthand(source)))
       self
     end
 

test/lib/liquid/regexp_test.rb

@@ -41,4 +41,8 @@ def test_variable_parser
     assert_equal ['var', '["method"]', '[0]'],          'var["method"][0]'.scan(VariableParser)
     assert_equal ['var', '[method]', '[0]', 'method'],  'var[method][0].method'.scan(VariableParser)
   end
+
+  def test_literal_shorthand_regexp
+    assert_match "{{{ {% if 'gnomeslab' contains 'liquid' %}yes{% endif %} }}}", LiteralShorthand
+  end
 end # RegexpTest

test/lib/liquid/tags/literal_test.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+require 'test_helper'
+
+class LiteralTagTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+  include Liquid
+
+  def test_empty_literal
+    assert_template_result '', '{% literal %}{% endliteral %}'
+    assert_template_result '', '{{{}}}'
+  end
+
+  def test_simple_literal_value
+    assert_template_result 'howdy',
+                           '{% literal %}howdy{% endliteral %}'
+  end
+
+  def test_literals_ignore_liquid_markup
+    expected = %({% if 'gnomeslab' contain 'liquid' %}yes{ % endif %})
+    template = %({% literal %}#{expected}{% endliteral %})
+
+    assert_template_result expected, template
+  end
+
+  def test_shorthand_syntax
+    expected = %({% if 'gnomeslab' contain 'liquid' %}yes{ % endif %})
+    template = %({{{#{expected}}}})
+
+    assert_template_result expected, template
+  end
+
+  # Class methods
+  def test_from_shorthand
+    assert_equal '{% literal %}gnomeslab{% endliteral %}', Liquid::Literal.from_shorthand('{{{gnomeslab}}}')
+  end
+
+  def test_from_shorthand_ignores_improper_syntax
+    text = "{% if 'hi' == 'hi' %}hi{% endif %}"
+    assert_equal text, Liquid::Literal.from_shorthand(text)
+  end
+end # AssignTest