Support for returning a complex object from a subexpression

[rmja]

Hi,

In handlebars.js one can create a helper that returns a complex object to be used by other helpers like so:

Handlebars.registerHelper("now", () => {
    return new Date(); // Returns a complex object, not a string
});
Handlebars.registerHelper("format", (value) => {
    if (value instanceof Date) {
        // This is the complex Date object, format as date
        return Handlebars.SafeString(value.valueOf());
    else {
        // This is not a Date object
        return Handlebars.SafeString("not a date");
     }
});

In the template I have something like {{format (now)}}. This works in handlebars.js, but I cannot figure out how to do it in .NET land. I don't want to write (serialize) the object in now() and then deserialize it again in format().

Any suggestions?

[rexm]

This isn’t natively supported yet. Serialization would work.

[rexm]

This is something that needs to be supported, but the most obvious ways to do it would introduce breaking changes to 1.x, so it's a core part of planning for v2.