Render (sub)component's variant with handler defined in config

What is a proper way to {{render ...}} sub-component with handler defined in parent-component’s config?

Currently in our team we successfully solved this in a wierd way: {{render '@handler' subComponentContext merge=true}} where subComponentContext property is defined in a YAML config as a string "@handler--variant". Note that @handler and @handler--variant should match the component e.g. name handler.

In other case we tried in eq. {{render subComponentContext}} which generates an error.

I’m not sure if our “wierd way solution” is a bug or a feature… 🤔

[dkhuntrods]

For more on using lookups, see here https://github.com/frctl/fractal/issues/278#issuecomment-316977660

[dkhuntrods]

@tlenex What’s happening there is that you’re telling Fractal to render@another-partial with @another-partial--my-variant’s context data. By default, any defined views (in this case, the *.hbs file) are included with a variant’s context data, which is why this works. There’s no plan to change this behaviour in v1, but things will work quite differently in v2.