Mustache function & javascript

[Abdou B]

Hello Guys,

 I juste start mustache.js a few days ago. 

I understand that mustache was built to be logic-less.

But I would like to use make treatment that will  require to use functions. 

I saw here and there the concept of functions. 

You define your functions in a JSON object and put it in the model/context of your templates. 

But it seems to me that you may use functions only when you built your model/context from Javascript code and not from java code. 

It is possible to define functions from Java code ? 

I try to put a string defining the JS function in a java String.

If that's the case I do not get the point to have functions. 

In my case I use java or Scala to run a program that built a mail from a template (html) and context/model ( an object ). 

What is the interest of functions if they are limited to js implementation ? 

Best Regards

Abdou 

[Sam]

They aren't. You can return an implementation of Function or TemplateFunction from your view fields / methods and it will be executed like it is in Javascript. You can look at the spec tests that show this behavior here:

https://github.com/spullara/mustache.java/blob/master/compiler/src/test/java/com/github/mustachejava/SpecTest.java#L67

Sam