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user379468

Reputation: 4039

How do I pass an array of objects into a Jade template

I have a complex array of JSON objects and I want to send that to my jade template so that so can create a visualization on the page I am rendering, but I keep having an issue with how the object is formatted.

In my controller I'm passing it like this 

res.render('scatter', {
    title: 'Scatter',
    company: company,
    graphdata: dataArray
});

in my view trying to display like this

script graphdata = "#{graphdata}";

When I log the result it looks like this 

[object Object],[object Object]

when it should be an array of objects.

what am I doing wrong ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 297

Answers (1)

Shimon Brandsdorfer
Shimon Brandsdorfer

Reputation: 1723

The reason why it happens is that it tries to convert the Array into a String. If you take an array of Objects and convert them to a string, you will get this.

(Go to browser console and do this [{a:4}, {k: 9}].toString(). And the result will be "[object Object],[object Object]".

If you want to display the array of Objects at it is, you can do:

"#{JSON.stringify(graphdata)}"

Upvotes: 2

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