Chaining function result ends in error

[paganotoni]

Similar to the arrays issue when trying to call a member of the result of a function call plush errors.

Code:

...
<p class="mr-2">
    Employees will be reminded on 
    <date class="font-semibold">
        <%= period.EmployeeReviewReminderDate().Format("Jan 2, 2006") %>
    </date>.
</p>
...

Error:

no prefix parse function for DOT found

It would be good to support this.

cc @Mido-sys

[Mido-sys]

@paganotoni sounds good. Thanks for creating the issue. I will probably get it done sometime next week.

[paganotoni]

Awesome. No rush on this. Appreciate all the great work you're putting into plush.

[Mido-sys]

@paganotoni, Sorry, I've been swamped lately. However, I will try to get it done before the end of the month.

[paganotoni]

Hey! don't worry about that. I appreciate your effort with all these issues and understand you take your time. Thanks for all your dedication.

[temuera]

Can this feature be used?

today I try to use the buffalo engine in new project and I have many years of experience in using the gin engine with golang native html.template

buffalo looks great. everything is going well.

but this will increase a lot code of template , if there is no support cascading object call function.

every range level need define a new temp variable ,then call the it's function.

This makes plush meaningless.

[paganotoni]

@temuera agree. It would be awesome to have this one solved cc @Mido-sys .

[paganotoni]

@temuera At the moment I use variables as a workaround.

<p class="mr-2">
    Employees will be reminded on 
    <date class="font-semibold">
        <% let date = period.EmployeeReviewReminderDate() %>
        <%= date.Format("Jan 2, 2006") %>
    </date>.
</p>
...

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[Mido-sys]

@paganotoni

Hello Antonio, It's been a long time. I know I promised to get this done in 2021, so I apologize for going dark on this for 3 years now. I sent a PR #181 and added different test cases. Please let me know if you think a test case is missing.

I also fixed a bug in which plush didn't return an error when an undefined function was called on an object.

[paganotoni]

Hey @Mido-sys! Thanks a lot!