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This allow Handlebars to look up Backbone Model's attributes: {{ user.address.street }} If user is a Backbone Model this will become user.get("address").street And if user.get("adress") is also a Backbone Model this will be produced: user.get("address").get("street")
Handlebars.JavaScriptCompiler.prototype.nameLookup = function(parent, name, type) {
var result = '(' + parent + ' instanceof Backbone.Model ? ' + parent + '.get("' + name + '") : ' + parent;
if (/^[0-9]+$/.test(name)) {
return result + "[" + name + "])";
} else if (Handlebars.JavaScriptCompiler.isValidJavaScriptVariableName(name)) {
return result + "." + name + ')';
} else {
return result + "['" + name + "'])";
}
};
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amatiasq commented Feb 5, 2013

Tested with Handlebars 1.0.rc.1

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amatiasq commented Feb 5, 2013

WARNING: Don't use it if Backbone.Model isn't global, it will broke all the templates.

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amatiasq commented Feb 5, 2013

Handlebars exposes this function in order to allow us to overwrite it.

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philihp commented Oct 1, 2013

I love this. Thank you!

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ptbrowne commented Jan 9, 2014

Great ! Thank you !

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