Scala Play template vararg HtmlContent - html

Question

I have a generic template in play 2.6, that I want to pass in a variable amount of HtmlContents. I've defined the template like this (including the implicit parameter I have in case that changes anything):
#(foo: String)(content: Html*)(implicit bar: Bar)
On the template side, this works fine-- I can dissect content with for and render it as I want. However, I haven't been able to figure out a clean way to invoke the variable arguments from the underlying template.
e.g, I have a view named "Baz":
#(something: String)(implicit bar: Bar)
In it, I try to invoke the template with multiple Html arguments. I've tried the following:
#template("fooString"){{123},{abc}}
and
#template("fooString")({123}, {abc})
and
#template("fooString"){{123}, {abc}})
And various other permutations, but inside of an enclosing bracket it seems to interpret everything literally as a single parameter in the HtmlContent vararg.
However, this ended up working as I intended, passing in multiple HtmlContents:
#template("fooString")(Html("123"), Html("abc"))
So that works, and I can use a triple-quoted interpolated string for a large Html block-- but it seems like there should be a cleaner way to do this, and the string interpolation is dangerous as it doesn't do html escaping.
Is there a way to do this using the { enclosed syntax? I'd like to understand more what is actually happening on an underlying level, and how play parses and generates HtmlContent in brackets.

Answer 1

So consider you have below template
// main.scala.html
#(title: String)(contents: Html*)
There are different ways you can call this template
Option #1
This is what you already posted in the question
#main("This is a title")(Html("abc"), Html("123"))
Options #2
#html1 = {
Hello
}
#html2 = {
<div>Tarun</div>
}
#main("This is a title")(html1, html2)
Option #3
#main("This is a title")(Html(<div>Tarun
</div>.toString), Html(<div>
Lalwani
</div>.toString))
Options #4
This is not exactly same option, but needs change in Template signature itself
#(title: String)(contents: List[String])
And then calling it like below
#main("This is a title")(List(
"""<div>
Tarun
</div>
""", """Hello"""))
Option #5
This requires code files and was already answered on another SO thread
Paul Draper's answer on Why doesn't this pass multiple HTML parameters to template