Escaping curly brackets standing next to expression in handlebars

Question

Can't understand how to escape { or } symbols standing next to expression at handlebars java templating engine.

I'm using handlebars templates to generate plain text so I can't use HTML ASCII codes of braces as advised there.

I need expression like \{{{variable.name}}\} to be resolved to {variable.value}. Should I create helpers for that or there is a cleaner way?

Answer 1

Here are some examples of escaping. The last method escape with a helper (when the other methods are not possible).

$(document).ready(function () {
  var context = {
    "textexample1" : "hello",
    "textexample2" : "<div><b>hello</b></div>",
    "textexample3" : "{ 'json' : 'sample }"
  };
  Handlebars.registerHelper('surroundWithCurlyBraces', function(text) {
    var result = '{' + text + '}';
    return new Handlebars.SafeString(result);
  });
	var source   = $("#sourceTemplate").html();
  var template = Handlebars.compile(source);
  var html    = template(context);
  $("#resultPlaceholder").html(html);
});

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/handlebars.js/4.0.5/handlebars.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script id="sourceTemplate" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
Simple text : {{textexample1}}<br/>
Html text not escaped : {{textexample2}}<br/>
Html text escaped : {{{textexample2}}}<br/>
Json text : {{textexample3}}<br/>
Non JSON text with surrounding mustaches {} : { {{textexample1}} }<br/>
Non JSON text with surrounding mustaches (no space)  : &#123;{{textexample1}}&#125;<br/>
Solution with helper : {{#surroundWithCurlyBraces textexample1}}{{/surroundWithCurlyBraces}}
</script>
<br/>
<div id="resultPlaceholder">
</div>