globalJsonGlobbedTemplate - templateData path doesn't actually matter

[mikemellor11]

From what i've found setting the path in templateData when using the globalJsonGlobbedTemplate technique doesn't actually change anything, it looks in the same place you've set it to find the handlebars/html files. This behaviour is fine, but it might be helpful to set the templateData to '*.json' in the readme as this is all thats needed for it to work.

[patrickkettner]

could you post a demo of the unexpected behavior? I am not replicating.

[ch2ch3]

@patrickkettner I'm having the same problem. In my Gruntfile I've set templateData: './templates/data/*.json', but running my task with -v gives the following output:

Reading ./templates/pages/index.hbs...OK
Reading ./templates/pages/index.json...ERROR
OK
Reading ./templates/pages/join-us.hbs...OK
Reading ./templates/pages/join-us.json...ERROR
OK
Reading ./templates/pages/press.hbs...OK
Reading ./templates/pages/press.json...ERROR
OK
Reading ./templates/pages/privacy.hbs...OK
Reading ./templates/pages/privacy.json...ERROR
OK
Reading ./templates/pages/terms-and-conditions.hbs...OK
Reading ./templates/pages/terms-and-conditions.json...ERROR
OK

It's not looking in the directory I've defined but in the directory where it's reading the templates from.

This works for me.

   build: {
        files: [{
            cwd : '_handlebars',
            expand: true,
            src: [ '*.handlebars' ],
            dest: '_dist/',
            ext: '.html'
        }],
        templateData: '*.json',
        helpers: '_handlebars/helpers/*.js'
    }   

[mikemellor11]

Yeah that will work fine, the point i'm making is that if you set a path for templateData it will get ignored and continue to look where the handlebar/html files are, so either change the readme to reflect that or we can look at changing the implementation.

[patrickkettner]

the implementation should definitely be changed - the readme reflects what should be happening.

[mikemellor11]

I've added a failing test case that displays the issue, i'll try and take a whack at fixing it later if i get a chance. Feel free to take a look for the time being - https://github.com/mikemellor11/grunt-compile-handlebars.git