From 53412fb07923ec83ee16a8b30cda56c3fd42b557 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeevanandam M <jeeva@myjeeva.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:41:06 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] convenient render data type

---
 render/render.go | 5 ++++-
 reply/reply.go   | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/render/render.go b/render/render.go
index 3b47c97b..73ef7104 100644
--- a/render/render.go
+++ b/render/render.go
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ import (
 var appConfig *config.Config
 
 type (
+	// Data type used for convenient data type of map[string]interface{}
+	Data map[string]interface{}
+
 	// Render interface
 	Render interface {
 		Render(io.Writer) error
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ type (
 	HTML struct {
 		Template *template.Template
 		Layout   string
-		ViewArgs map[string]interface{}
+		ViewArgs Data
 	}
 )
 
diff --git a/reply/reply.go b/reply/reply.go
index c0fb1faf..aa77950b 100644
--- a/reply/reply.go
+++ b/reply/reply.go
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ func (r *Reply) FileInline(filename string, file io.ReadCloser) *Reply {
 //      template => /views/pages/app/login.html
 //               => /views/pages/App/Login.html
 //
-func (r *Reply) HTML(data map[string]interface{}) *Reply {
+func (r *Reply) HTML(data render.Data) *Reply {
 	r.Rdr = &render.HTML{
 		ViewArgs: data,
 	}
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ func (r *Reply) HTML(data map[string]interface{}) *Reply {
 
 // HTMLl method renders based on given layout and data. Refer `Reply.HTML(...)`
 // method.
-func (r *Reply) HTMLl(layout string, data map[string]interface{}) *Reply {
+func (r *Reply) HTMLl(layout string, data render.Data) *Reply {
 	r.Rdr = &render.HTML{
 		Layout:   layout,
 		ViewArgs: data,