Handlebars Helper?

[George Simms]

Hi, in vert.x 3 and a groovy app I am trying to use handlebars-layout helper, but cannot seem to get the handlebars engine in order to add the helper.

Otherwise I get thsi:

groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: io.vertx.groovy.ext.web.RoutingContext.fail() is applicable for argument types: (com.github.jknack.handlebars.HandlebarsException) values: [com.github.jknack.handlebars.HandlebarsException: templates/index.hbs:8:3: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: could not find helper: 'extend'
 {{#extend "layout"}}

Since the index file is the file extending the layout, there doesn't seem to be anywhere to preload the handlbars-layout.js

I know I'm probably missing something silly :)

Thanks,
G

[Paulo Lopes]

The handlebars implementation is based on handlebars for java http://jknack.github.io/handlebars.java/ and it does not contain any helper named "extend" you can however achieve similar results with "partials" and "blocks"

http://jknack.github.io/handlebars.java/reuse.html

[Arnaud Estève]

If you need a concrete example you can have a look here

index.hbs "extends" layout.hbs using partials and blocks as Paulo showed you.

[George Simms]

Paulo,

I was unaware of that possibility, we will research it more.

Thx
G

[George Simms]

Arnaud,

Thank you - an example is always speaking more!! This will be very useful!

Thanks,
G

[George Simms]

Hmm now I wonder how do I default to loading index.hbs for an empty URL which normally would fetch index.html? I want my index page to be a Handlebars template, but cannot work out how to change the default

On Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 10:18:40 AM UTC+1, Paulo Lopes wrote: