I am trying to customize a mustache.js template that formats a number to a specific decimal place using lambda and I am encountering problems. Given an object that looks like this:
{
x: 123,
points: [
{ name: "foo", y: 1.234567 },
{ name: "bar", y: 2.123456 },
{ name: "fax", y: 3.623415 }
]
}
At first I tried to create a template that would look like this:
var template = "{{x}}{{#points}}<br/>{{name}}, {{#y.toFixed}}2{{/y.toFixed}}";
This did not work (generated an empty space where the number should be). Although, perhaps, the lambda was not in the correct format, since toFixed does not return a function ( documents for mustaches ). So I tried:
Number.prototype.toMustacheFixed = function(){
var n = this;
return function(d){ return n.toFixed(d); };
};
var template = "{{x}}{{#points}}<br/>{{name}}, {{#y.toMustacheFixed}}2{{/y.toMustacheFixed}}"
Again unsuccessfully. I even tried to simplify the toMustacheFixed function for:
Number.prototype.toMustacheFixed = function(){
return function(){ return 123.45; };
};
It did not help. I was still getting an empty template. So, can Mustache.js just not handle native and prototype functions on numbers, or am I doing something wrong?