How can a function could be called from json in mustache CLI?

[ph1-xyz]

Hi!
I'm trying to execute from mustacheCLI a function residing in the dataView.json. This brings me an error, saying that JSON cannot contain functions...

How can one use mustache's functionality to execute functions from CLI?

Thanks

[phillipj]

Hi there!

The error you're describing is a JSON limitation; functions cannot be serialised into JSON.

So in #717 we allowed our CLI to be given a .js file as the view, instead of a .json file. If we use the test files (./test/_files/cli_js_view_with_function.js & ./test/_files/cli_js_view_with_function.mustache) we got in this repo as an example, you could use the CLI to render the output:

$ mustache cli_js_view_with_function.js cli_js_view_with_function.mustache

Does that make sense?

[ph1-xyz]

Thank you very much, I'm going to try immediately.

I also commented here explaining a bit what I was trying to do, hope what you just pointed out solves it!

Edit: It surely works. At the moment it behaves weirdly in my code, but it must be me. Anyways, this is a great improvement for the library, it could be worth to be mentioned in the Read me!

[phillipj]

Thanks for confirming it works as intended!

Good suggestion mentioning the fact that .js could also be used in addition to .json, feel free to open a PR with an improvement 😄

Closing this for now as your question has been answered.