Templates fail to compile correctly

[andreas-marschke]

Trying to output results in a JSON format fails as the starting curly brace { is picked up by the templating in the task eg.:

{
          filesize: {
                        default: {
                                files: [{
                                        expand: true,
                                        cwd: "build",
                                        src: "./**/*.js.*",
                                        ext: ".js*",
                                        extDot: "first"
                                }],
                                options: {
                                        output: {
                                                path: "results/filesizes.json",
                                                format: "\{\"name\": \"{filename}\" \}"        
                                                append: true
                                        }
                                }
                        }
                }
}

This example task configuration fails as the first curly brace is interpreted as a template var.
I'd suggest using grunt.template and removing the templating code all together.

New usage example for format would be:

  format: "<%= filename %>,<%= kb%>,<%= now %>"

[DigitalKrony]

Has there been any work on solving this or is there another grunt-task that yields this result?

[andreas-marschke]

@DigitalKrony Sadly by the looks of it this package has been abandoned by @k-maru

[DigitalKrony]

@andreas-marschke Bummer. Have you been able to track down another task helper that prints file metadata to file?

[andreas-marschke]

@DigitalKrony Have a look here:
https://github.com/SOASTA/boomerang/blob/master/Gruntfile.js#L261

We simply succumbed to using CSV instead of JSON

[DigitalKrony]

@andreas-marschke I guess I'll give it a whirl and see where it gets me. Thanks!