Registering multiple helpers at once?

[simevidas]

Does Handlebars provide a shorthand for registering multiple helpers at once, so that Handlebars.registerHelper doesn't have to be repeated multiple times in code?

I was thinking about being able to pass an object, like so:

Handlebars.registerHelper({
    helper1: function () { ... },
    helper2: function () { ... },
    helper3: function () { ... }
});

The way I currently do it is this:

$.each({
    helper1: function () { ... },
    helper2: function () { ... },
    helper3: function () { ... }
}, function ( name, handler ) {
    Handlebars.registerHelper( name, handler );
});

[rodrigoalvesvieira]

+1. It'd be nice to allow "batch" definition of helpers like this.

[simonsmith]

I'm solving this by just overwriting the method with the following:

Handlebars.registerPartial = function(name, str) {
    var type = Object.prototype.toString.call(name);
    if ( type === '[object Object]' ) {
        for ( var partial in name ) {
            if ( name.hasOwnProperty(partial) ) {
                this.partials[partial] = name[partial];
            }
        }
    } else {
        this.partials[name] = str;
    }
};

[kpdecker]

@simonsmith I couldn't track down where that was in a PR and also wanted to implement for registerHelpers so I implemented this fix. Thanks for doing the initial work though!

[simonsmith]

Sweet! Using a proper extend method was definitely the way to go.