Weird Bug related to Eloquent and Mustache at /post/{id} page

[humuslokiy]

Hi I'm having trouble with generating html output at laravel server side.

With Javascript Disabled in Google Chrome, there are posts BUT without comments in /posts/{id}.

Here's my route.

Route::get('posts/{id}', function($id)
{
    $post = App::make('PostRepositoryInterface')->findById($id);
    return View::make('layouts.application')->nest('content', 'posts.show', array(
        'post' => $post,
    ));

});

I added debug code in "show.mustache" file to findout what is happening.

<pre>
    {{{post}}}
</pre>

Here is my show.mustache

<article>
    <h3>
        {{ post.title }} {{ post.id }}
        <small>{{ post.author_name }}</small>
    </h3>
    <div>
        {{ post.content }}
    </div>
</article>

<div>

    <pre>
    {{{post}}}
    </pre>

    <h2>Add A Comment</h2>
    {{> comments._form }}

    <section data-role="comments">
        {{#post.comments}}
            <div>
                {{> comments._comment }}
            </div>
        {{/post.comments}}
    </section>
</div>

JSON Output shows that there are both posts and comments included within post.

{"id":"2","title":"Test Post","content":"Lorem ipsum Reprehenderit velit est irure in enim in magna aute occaecat qui velit ad.","author_name":"Conar Welsh","created_at":"2013-06-23 16:09:45","updated_at":"2013-06-23 16:09:45","comments":[{"id":"3","content":"a","author_name":"a","post_id":"2","created_at":"2013-06-23 16:10:01","updated_at":"2013-06-23 16:10:01"},{"id":"2","content":"Lorem ipsum Nisi dolore ut incididunt mollit tempor proident eu velit cillum dolore sed","author_name":"Testy McTesterson","post_id":"2","created_at":"2013-06-23 16:09:45","updated_at":"2013-06-23 16:09:45"}]}

---

BUT..... when I changed the debug code from {{{post}}} to {{{post.comments}}}

Laravel showed orange screen with this error.

Object of class Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\HasMany could not be converted to string

 if ($partial = $this->mustache->loadPartial('comments._form')) {
            $buffer .= $partial->renderInternal($context, ' ');
        }
        $buffer .= $indent . '  <pre>';
        $buffer .= "\n";
        $buffer .= $indent . '  ';
        $value = $this->resolveValue($context->findDot('post.comments'), $context, $indent);
        $buffer .= $value;
        $buffer .= "\n";
        $buffer .= $indent . '  </pre>';

How should I solve the Eloquent's error?

---

I tried to do some tricks to avoid the bug, and it worked. But it seemed causing inefficiency of querying $comments twice.

(both $posts and $comments shared the same comments data, and the Laravel's ORM feature is not being utilised.)

Route::get('posts/{id}', function($id)
{
    $post = App::make('PostRepositoryInterface')->findById($id);

    $comments = App::make('CommentRepositoryInterface')->findAll($post->id);
    return View::make('layouts.application')->nest('content', 'posts.show', array(
        'post' => $post,
        'comments' => $comments,
    ));

});

<article>
    <h3>
        {{ post.title }} {{ post.id }}
        <small>{{ post.author_name }}</small>
    </h3>
    <div>
        {{ post.content }}
    </div>
</article>

<div>

    <h2>Add A Comment</h2>
    {{> comments._form }}

    <section data-role="comments">
        {{#post.comments}}
            <div>
                {{> comments._comment }}
            </div>
        {{/post.comments}}
        {{#comments}}
            <div>
                {{> comments._comment }}
            </div>
        {{/comments}}
    </section>
</div>

Thank you for your time for reading this!

[conarwelsh]

I had some people requesting a change to the way we insert the properties into the mustache templates, so I made a change to the package, that was the reason this functionality broke for you. I reverted back the change, my apologies, if you do an update your code should now work properly.

[humuslokiy]

thank you very much!!