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Can't get #if to work

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Hello, I’m struggling to get #if to work with compiled templates. Everything else seems to work OK and the template works on a JSFiddle I have with the same data.

http://jsfiddle.net/nickhow83/xsry8msk/

My problem is that I use a truthy value for the server property but the #if block isn’t evaluating it and rendering the content.

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Created 7 years ago
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randylsucommented, Jan 11, 2018

Just ran into this as well with string properties on a dynamic object. The .Value work-around may get me by, but would be great if it worked as expected. I’ll do some digging into the unit tests & see if I can figure something out.

UPDATE: Deserializing explicitly to ExpandoObject rather than dynamic resulted in the expected behavior.

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rexmcommented, Mar 30, 2019

@randylsu’s comment directly above yours notes the solution:

Deserializing explicitly to ExpandoObject rather than dynamic resulted in the expected behavior.

Implicit deserialization in Newtonsoft produces a JObject, which is a specialized kind of object specific to Newtonsoft that Handlebars.Net doesn’t understand. If you explicitly deserialize your JSON to a BCL type like Expando or a POCO, you’ll find it behaves as expected (and also performs about 10x faster).