item list not rendering

[funston]

This is the output I get from running the example, are array iterators broken?

Joe's shopping card: <ul> <li></li><li></li></ul>

var view = {name: "Joe's shopping card",
            items: ["bananas", "apples"]}

var template = "{{name}}: <ul> {{#items}}<li>{{.}}</li>{{/items}} </ul>"

var html = Mustache.to_html(template,view);

[janl]

Can you write a test case for that? Can you check examples/ for existing tests? They all pass for me.

[natevw]

I'm getting the same issue when putting the example from the project homepage into a CouchApp. If I use {{%IMPLICIT-ITERATOR iterator=test}}, then test is defined, but without it {{.}} yields nothing.

I'm starting to think the example is wrong, especially based on the documentation for the IMPLICIT-ITERATOR and for http://mustache.github.com/mustache.5.html. I think the {{.}} is only defined with the custom IMPLICIT-ITERATOR pragma, since it's not mentioned at all in the main mustache documentation.

To iterate, your array needs to contain objects eg:

var data = {"fruits" : [{"name" : "apple"}, {"name" : "orange"}, {"name" : "banana"]}
var template = "<ul>{{#fruits}}<li>{{name}}</li>{{/fruits}}</ul>"

Or you need to use IMPLICIT-ITERATOR:

var data = {"fruits" : ["apple", "orange", "banana"]}
var template = "<ul>{{%IMPLICIT-ITERATOR}}{{#fruits}}<li>{{.}}</li>{{/fruits}}</ul>"

The documentation for this port seems to conflate the two.

[janl]

good find, I'll look into updating the docs

[janl]

hm, no, sections for iteration and the implicit iterator pragma are separately documented. please reopen and suggest a patch to README.md if you think it needs clarification.