Template engine: a nesting issue I face

thinkdiff

Hi,

I am still wondering if what I found is a valid bug or not.
When I try to test the template engine using the given example below, it works fine.

{
    "animals": [
        {
            "name": "Cat",
            "species": "Felis silvestris catus",
            "isHuman": false,
        },
        {
            "name": "Dog",
            "species": "Canis lupus familiaris",
            "isHuman": false,
        },
        {
            "name": "Human",
            "species": "Homo sapiens",
            "isHuman": true
        }
    ],
    "package": {
        "name": "templates.js",
        "author": "psychobunny",
        "url": "http://www.github.com/psychobunny/templates.js"
    },
    "website": "http://burnaftercompiling.com",
    "sayHello": true
}

<!-- BEGIN animals -->
  {animals.name} is from the species {animals.species}.
<!-- END animals -->

After that, I had the animals moved under another field 'living' as a child as noted below:

{
    "living": {
       "animals": [
           {
            "name": "Cat",
            "species": "Felis silvestris catus",
            "isHuman": false,
          }, ....
         ]
  }

For this JSON data, the following doesn't print out anything:

<!-- BEGIN living.animals -->
  {living.animals.name} is from the species {living.animals.species}.
<!-- END living.animals -->

Is this a known limitation or a bug? Am I missing something here?

Thanks

baris

Does this work?

<!-- BEGIN animals -->
  {living.animals.name} is from the species {living.animals.species}.
<!-- END animals -->

thinkdiff

@baris said:

Does this work?

<!-- BEGIN animals -->
  {living.animals.name} is from the species {living.animals.species}.
<!-- END animals -->

Thanks for your reply. I tried it and it works!
Is that the intended use? What if another 'animals' is also there under a different node within the same json document?

baris

That is a question for @psychobunny. You can test it quickly by adding another node with an animals array.

thinkdiff

@baris Thanks anyways.

Another strange behavior I noticed was that using 'abc2' for array didn't work whereas 'abc' is fine. Putting a number at the end of node name doesn't print out anything though in my testing. Just FYI

baris

@thinkdiff said:

You can report bugs you find to the templates.js repo as well. https://github.com/psychobunny/templates.js/issues