On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Marc Tardif wrote: > * Richard Harding <rick.hard...@canonical.com> [2012-01-30 08:26 -0500]: > > On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Marc Tardif wrote: > [snip] > > > 1. Make two passes over the data, once to massage the data and another > > > time to render it. In other words, first render the raw JSON to cooked > > > JSON and then the cooked JSON to HTML. I'm not so much concerned about > > > the performance implication of rendering the same data twice as much > > > as the nuisance of duplicating what is essentially display logic in > > > two places. > > > > There are a couple of ways this might go. Mustache does support > > "functions" or lambda depending on which docs you read. So you could add a > > function that does some date parsing logic to your objects as you pass them > > to the template and that function would accept the date string coming from > > the JSON and then try to pretty it up. > > My understanding of the mustache.js documentation is that functions are > indeed supported but they are assumed to be contained in the JSON data > passed to the renderer. In other words, lets say I received something > like this from the API: > > ... > > To render the last_test_run_date properly, I would have to cook the view > to contain somekind of rendering function like this: > > ... > > If my understanding is correct, I'm rather uncomfortable with the idea of > having to cook the raw data like this. Otherwise, please let me know how > else this problem might be solved with mustache.js.
Yes, you are correct. This then gets into why some of us aren't the biggest fans of Mustache as a template language. A very similar language with similar syntax is Handlebars. The nice thing about handlebars is that it supports the idea of helpers. http://handlebarsjs.com/#helpers If you follow that idea you could see writing a json_dateparse helper that you could register and use in your template ... {{each model}} <li>Stored Date: {{json_datepare stored_date}}</li> {{/each}} -- Rick Harding Launchpad Developer https://launchpad.net/~rharding @mitechie _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
