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If helper can generate several syntax errors that aren't very useful #1548

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ErisDS opened this issue Sep 9, 2019 · 2 comments

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ErisDS commented Sep 9, 2019 •

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If you write a malformed {{#if}} helper with too many arguments, you get weird syntax errors that are different depending on just how you malformed the helper:

{{#if anything_goes_here "string"}}

cannot read property 'includeZero' of undefined

{{#if anything_goes_here undefined}}

Cannot read property 'hash' of undefined

{{#if anything_goes_here null}}

Cannot read property 'hash' of null

Here's a JS Fiddle demonstrating these errors
https://jsfiddle.net/m5a9q3b0/3/

Obviously, the if statement examples are incorrect, but the varied weird errors that get generated are the problem. In Ghost themes we regularly see all 3 of these errors, and it's clear noone understands what they mean or how to fix them.

We just added an ugly workaround to Ghost you can see here

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Cannot read property match of undefined TryGhost/Ghost#10496

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ErisDS added a commit to ErisDS/handlebars.js that referenced this issue


          fix: add guard to if & unless helpers

46b4357

fixes handlebars-lang#1548

- add a guard to show readable syntax error for if / unless helper
- prevents against 3 different errors that can be generated by different systax errors

ErisDS added a commit to ErisDS/handlebars.js that referenced this issue


          fix: add guard to if & unless helpers

81384cc

fixes handlebars-lang#1548

- add a guard to show readable syntax error for if / unless helper
- prevents against 3 different errors that can be generated by different systax errors

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nknapp commented Sep 9, 2019

related to #1549

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ErisDS mentioned this issue

fix: add guard to if & unless helpers #1549

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ErisDS added a commit to ErisDS/handlebars.js that referenced this issue


          Add tests for if/unless error cases

f0a64b6

refs handlebars-lang#1548

ErisDS added a commit to ErisDS/handlebars.js that referenced this issue


          fix: add guard to if & unless helpers

1a3d030

fixes handlebars-lang#1548

- add a guard to show readable syntax error for if / unless helper
- prevents against 3 different errors that can be generated by different systax errors

ErisDS added a commit to ErisDS/handlebars.js that referenced this issue


          Add tests for if/unless error cases

a9514b8

refs handlebars-lang#1548

ErisDS added a commit to ErisDS/handlebars.js that referenced this issue


          fix: add guard to if & unless helpers

87d78d3

fixes handlebars-lang#1548

- add a guard to show readable syntax error for if / unless helper
- prevents against 3 different errors that can be generated by different systax errors

ErisDS added a commit to ErisDS/handlebars.js that referenced this issue


          Add tests for if/unless error cases

739addf

refs handlebars-lang#1548

ErisDS added a commit to ErisDS/handlebars.js that referenced this issue


          fix: add guard to if & unless helpers

cd83e2f

fixes handlebars-lang#1548

- add a guard to show readable syntax error for if / unless helper
- prevents against 3 different errors that can be generated by different systax errors

ErisDS added a commit to ErisDS/handlebars.js that referenced this issue


          Add tests for built-in helper inconsistent errors

96aab4a

refs handlebars-lang#1548

ErisDS added a commit to ErisDS/handlebars.js that referenced this issue


          fix: add guard to if & unless helpers

ccd1590

fixes handlebars-lang#1548

- add a guard to show readable syntax error for if / unless helper
- prevents against 3 different errors that can be generated by different systax errors

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nknapp commented Oct 28, 2019

Released in 4.5.0

ErisDS added a commit to TryGhost/Ghost that referenced this issue


          Removed overly-specific handling of handlebars errors

303ea87

refs: #10496
refs: handlebars-lang/handlebars.js#1548

- For a while, handlebars would and could generate quite a lot of obscure sytnax error messages for malformed helpers that we couldn't catch in gscan
- This was fixed in handlebars-lang/handlebars.js#1548
- We have also since added AST parsing to gscan, so if there are more obscure syntax errors, we should be able to add rules to catch them
- Therefore, this additional, overly specific code block isn't needed anymore, so let's clean it up!

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