Printing arbitrary JSON data - feedback on my approach

[Rob Shepherd]

Hi,

I enjoy feeding initial data for javascript client scripts into the page at render time, rather than make further HTTP requests for data.

(I've used this approach quite satisfactorily on Thymelaf etc)

Here is a Gist which shows how i've implemented this in Pebble.

https://gist.github.com/robshep/db7dde26842764a01cd995ed74486665

It works fine, and I can output arbitrary JSON data.  

Notice I must use...

| raw

...to get plain JSON data.

Is there a better way?

Thanks

Rob

PS, You may notice I'm using a custom syntax to avoid handlebars {{}} on the servside, as I use handlebars/angular on the client side.

[Nick Merlo]

Looking at the documentation,  you would need to change your function to return an instance of SafeString instead of String.  Pebble will then omit escaping the result

[Rob Shepherd]

Thank Nick.  Works great.