Handlebars.js parse object instead of [Object object]

Question

I\'m using Handlebars templates and JSON data is already represented in [Object object], how do I parse this data outside of the Handlebars? For example, I\'m trying to popu

Answer 1

If you want more control over the output formatting you can write your own helper. This one has a recursive function to traverse nested objects.

  Handlebars.registerHelper('objToList', function(context) {
    function toList(obj, indent) {
      var res=""
      for (var k in obj) { 
          if (obj[k] instanceof Object) {
              res=res+k+"\n"+toList(obj[k], ("   " + indent)) ;
          }
          else{
              res=res+indent+k+" : "+obj[k]+"\n";
          }
      }
      return res;
    }    
    return toList(context,"");
  });

We used handlebars for email templates and this proved useful for a user like the following

{
  "user": {
    "id": 123,
    "name": "First Name",
    "account": {
      "bank": "Wells Fargo",
      "sort code": " 123-456"
    }
  }
}