Json objects do not render properly

[Diwas Pandey]

Current implementation of handlebars does not render a template with json objects properly. For example :

use handlebars::Handlebars;
use serde_json::json;

let source = "This is a json Object :  {{name}}";

let mut handlebars = Handlebars::new();

let data = json!({"object": {"name": "object", "type":"object"}});

let result = handlebars.render_template(source, &data).unwrap();

println!("{}", result);

the above code produces the following output :

This is a json Object : [object]

where the desired behaviour is the following :

This is a json Object : {"name": "object", "type": "object"}

Upon further investigation, the issue seems to be related to code here. I am not sure why the current implementation exists this way. Changing this line to the line below should solve the issue, since serde_json::Value already supports to_string()method.

Json::Object(_) => self.to_string()

[Ning Sun]

Sorry for late response. This behaviour is aligned with original JavaScript implementation of handlebars. If you really want to render an object, just convert it to string or write a helper for that.