ericclemmons / ericclemmons/grunt-angular-templates
silent failure with unhelpful message if "dest" is not a string (e.g. an array)
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Description
let me preface this by saying it's completely my own fault, but I lost a fair bit of time looking at my configuration before realizing my problem (since at a glance it appeared my configuration matched the examples).
consider this ngtemplates configuration:
``` js
//ng-templates
ngtemplates: {
app: {
src: ['assets/views/*.html'],
dest: ['template.js']
}
```
running grunt:
```
$ grunt --verbose ngtemplates
...
Reading ...OK
Writing template.js...ERROR
Warning: Unable to write "template.js" file (Error code: undefined). Use --force to continue.
Aborted due to warnings.
```
this is an unhelpful error emitted from grunt's file.write function (which you us) and after some digging I realized that the real error was "TypeError: path must be a string" and that clued me into my mistake.
I might have expected an error message pointing out that dest had to be a string. Further the fact that it says:
```
Writing template.js
```
vs
```
Writing [ 'template.js' ]
```
Allowed me to think I was providing good data. (this is from this line from grunt.file.write)
``` js
grunt.verbose.write((nowrite ? 'Not actually writing ' : 'Writing ') + filepath + '...');
```
This is on version 0.5.1
edit: pointing out another thing where grunt's logging steered me wrong
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