So why can't I get external data to work at all?

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Phil Moc

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Sep 13, 2013, 3:20:37 PM9/13/13

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So I'm following the instructions given in the user guide.

My yuidoc.json file looks like this (c/p'd from the user guide):

{
  "options": {
    "external": {
      "data": "http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/api/data.json"
    }
  }
}

And when I run yuidocs it seems that it recognizes the yuidoc.json file and it claims that it received external data and that it's mixing the external data in:

info: (yuidoc): Starting YUIDoc with the following options:
info: (yuidoc): 
{ external: { data: 'http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/api/data.json' },
  port: 3000,
  nocode: false,
  paths: [ '.' ],
  outdir: 'docs',
  project: {} }
info: (yuidoc): YUIDoc Starting from: .
warn: (yuidoc): Found out dir, deleting: docs
info: (yuidoc): Making out dir: docs
info: (yuidoc): Parsed 15 files in 0.024 seconds
info: (builder): Building..
info: (builder): Compiling Templates
info: (builder): Importing external documentation data.
info: (builder): Fetching: http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/api/data.json
info: (builder): Received: http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/api/data.json
info: (builder): Finished fetching remote data
info: (builder): External data received, mixing
info: (builder): Making default directories: classes,modules,files
info: (builder): Copying Assets
info: (builder): Rendering and writing 0 modules pages.
info: (builder): Finished writing module files
info: (builder): Rendering and writing 1 class pages.
info: (builder): Loading theme from /usr/lib/node_modules/yuidocjs/themes/default/theme.json
info: (builder): Preparing index.html
info: (builder): Writing API Meta Data
info: (builder): Finished writing class files
info: (builder): Rendering and writing 1 source files.
info: (builder): Writing index.html
info: (builder): Finished writing source files
info: (builder): Finished writing 3 files in 5.049 seconds
info: (yuidoc): Completed in 5.087 seconds

However, it only writes the 1 class page from the one local js file I made and none of the external data is anywhere to be found in the built index.html

Can anyone spot what I might be doing wrong here? I've found YUIDocs very convenient so far, but I can't wrap my head around what's going wrong with this.

I'm on Mac OSX v10.8.4, my YUIDoc version is 0.3.45 and my Node.js version is 0.10.18 if that helps.