reference to objects in benchpress

shayan

hi
I'm trying to write a template for a plugin with some data that looks like this:

const data = {
   people:{
       "a": [
          {name:'john',id:1},
          {name:'dave',id:2}
       ]
       "b": [
          {name:'sam',id:1},
          {name:'eli',id:2},
          {name:'nicole',id:3}
       ]
    }
}
res.render('path/template-name', data)

my code in template is something like this:

{{{ each people}}}
    <div>
        <ul>
            {{{each people}}}
            <li>
                {people.name}
            </li>
            {{{end}}}
        </ul>
    </div>
{{{ end }}}

when I render the template it does create two lists with 2 and 3 items but it doesn't show the names. I tried doing it with @value.name instead of people.name too but it just writes {[object Object].name}.
can anyone show me what I'm doing wrong?
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julian

@shayan The structure of your data is incorrect. people should be an array, if you wish to use {{{ each }}} with it.

(Unless there's some crazy behaviour in benchpress that allows for iterating through objects...)

Your template would work if your data was structured like this:

const data = {
	people: [
		{
			people: [
				{name:'john',id:1},
				{name:'dave',id:2}
			]
		},
		{
			people: [
				{name:'sam',id:1},
				{name:'eli',id:2},
				{name:'nicole',id:3}
			]
		},
	],
};

However I would really not recommend naming both nested objects people. That is confusing

shayan

@julian

(Unless there's some crazy behaviour in benchpress that allows for iterating through objects...)

there is an example in the documentation (https://github.com/benchpressjs/benchpressjs/blob/master/docs/iteration.md#example-2-1) which has a similar structure to my data but it is kind of vague on how should I Iterate and reference the values if every value of a key like jumpbugger is an array of objects.

However I would really not recommend naming both nested objects people. That is confusing

maybe how I structured the data is not standard but my problem was that the nested objects (like the second and third people key in your structure) has a dynamic key (like a and b) and not a static one (like people which you said) , so I couldn't iterate over it no matter what I did.
fortunately I can change the structure so tnx .

PitaJ

@shayan what do you want the output to look like given that data?

Something like this might work:

{{{ each people}}}
    <div>
        <ul>
            {{{ each @value }}}
            <li>
                {./name}
            </li>
            {{{ end }}}
        </ul>
    </div>
{{{ end }}}

shayan

@pitaj
I want to have a list for every key in people object and populate that list with the names of people I have in array of every key, something like this:
for a:

john
dave

for b:

sam
eli
nicole

I did not mention that but I also tried using ./name. it also didn't show any names, just an empty bullet.
the only way I could reference the object was with @value but when I tried to access a value of a specific key (like {@value.name}) it just wrote {[object Object].name} instead of actual value

PitaJ

@shayan @value.name wouldn't work, but ./name is equivalent to what you're trying to express.

Did you try exactly what I suggested?

shayan

@pitaj I copied exactly my data (after fixing the syntax error before "b") that I wrote here and your code. it did not work.

PitaJ

@shayan weird, because it worked when I tried it. Can you check what version of benchpress you have?

npm ls benchpressjs

shayan

@pitaj
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PitaJ

@shayan woops actually it wasn't working for me. It looks like this is a bug. For some reason ./name in the inner loop refers to the name property of the value in the outer loop. I've created an issue:

Iterating over `@value` results in incorrect path resolution · Issue #97 · benchpressjs/benchpressjs

Describe the bug {{{ each people}}} {{{ each @value }}} {./name} In the above, ./name will try to resolve to people[i].name instead of people[i][j].name. Minimal Reproduction https://runkit.com/pitaj/5fecc2b6246e6e001bac76d9 Versions Nod...

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