Accessing object using brackets does not work []

[itsdarrylnorris]

Problem / Issue:

I am trying to access a key with space on it, and when I am trying to use the syntax using the brackets, it does not seems to be working.

Here is the example code:

<?php 

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Liquid\Template;

$payload = json_decode('
{
  "name": {
       "Hello World": "foo"
   }
}
', true);

$template = new Template();
$template->parse('Hello, {{ name["Hello World"] }}!');
echo $template->render($payload);

Output

Hello, !% 

I am doing something wrong or missing something? Or this feature is currently not supported?

[krDhiraj]

Hey @sanmai,

We are also facing same problem. Kindly help us by including this as a feature.
If needed, we can also share the solution we have implemented for ourself.
Let us know if you need pull request for this.

[sanmai]

@krDhiraj If you feel like going out your way and fixing this issue with a pull request, please do. I'll try to review it, especially if it comes with a bunch of tests.

Just to be absolutely clear, I'm not going to fix this issue on my own accord, citing various constraints.

[live627]

I don't see this syntax in the reference documentation

https://shopify.github.io/liquid/basics/introduction/#objects

But this answer on stack overflow seems to suggest that it should work

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18839451/what-if-my-attribute-name-in-shopify-liquid-has-a-space-customer-io-email-syst

EDIT: And indeed, integration tests exist

https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/blob/c99c93255d55129652e262e87c27d359628f71e6/test/integration/variable_test.rb#L49-L52