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Comments in between if, else-if and else blocks produces syntax error

See original GitHub issue

It seems when there are in-line comments between if blocks the else or else-if line is drug up into the comments line resulting in a syntax error. This was produced by running prettier no additional options.

//
// checks the parent element for time range values or date values
function to_and_from_timestamps(parent) {
    var from_ts = '';
    var to_ts = '';
    var time_values = get_all_form_values(parent);
    //
    // getting time range data
    if (time_values.hasOwnProperty('time_range')) {
        from_ts = time_values['time_range'].split('|')[0] + ' 00:00:00';
        to_ts = time_values['time_range'].split('|')[1] + ' 23:59:59';
    }
    // using calendar inputs instead
    else {
        from_ts = '{st-year}-{st-month}-{st-day} 00:00:00'.format(time_values);
        to_ts = '{en-year}-{en-month}-{en-day} 23:59:59'.format(time_values);
    }
    //
    return { from_ts: from_ts, to_ts: to_ts };
}

becomes…

//
// checks the parent element for time range values or date values
function to_and_from_timestamps(parent) {
  var from_ts = "";
  var to_ts = "";
  var time_values = get_all_form_values(parent);
  //
  // getting time range data
  if (time_values.hasOwnProperty("time_range")) {
    from_ts = time_values["time_range"].split("|")[0] + " 00:00:00";
    to_ts = time_values["time_range"].split("|")[1] + " 23:59:59";
  }
  // using calendar inputs instead else {
    from_ts = "{st-year}-{st-month}-{st-day} 00:00:00".format(time_values);
    to_ts = "{en-year}-{en-month}-{en-day} 23:59:59".format(time_values);
  }
  //
  return { from_ts: from_ts, to_ts: to_ts };
}

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions:6
Comments:8 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

jlongstercommented, Jan 16, 2017

Thanks. Comments are going to be re-hauled this week and should be a lot more stable.

0reactions

jlongstercommented, Jan 26, 2017

See #487 as a follow-up, it no longer produces invalid code but we need to fix the formatting

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