handlebars - is it possible to access parent context in a partial?

Question

I\'ve got a handlebar template that loads a partial for a sub-element.

I would need to access a variable from the parent context in the calling template, from within

Answer 1

Working fiddle (inspired by handlebars pull request #385 by AndrewHenderson) http://jsfiddle.net/QV9em/4/

Handlebars.registerHelper('include', function(options) {
    var context = {},
        mergeContext = function(obj) {
            for(var k in obj)context[k]=obj[k];
        };
    mergeContext(this);
    mergeContext(options.hash);
    return options.fn(context);
});

Here's how you'd setup the parent template:

{{#each items}} 
    {{#include parent=..}}
        {{> item-template}}
    {{/include}}
{{/each}}

And the partial:

value is {{parent}}