I’m working on an email template for Mailjet written in MJML that uses an array value provided through Vars
to generate a list of items the sender wants to receive from the mail recipient. All values in the array are plain text values.
The data passed to the API request looks like this:
{
"FromEmail":"sender@email.com",
"FromName":"Chris Crumble",
"Subject":"Data Request",
"MJ-TemplateID":"200000",
"MJ-TemplateLanguage":true,
"Recipients":[
{
"Email":"recipient@email.com",
"Name":"Hans Henson"
}
],
"Vars":{
"mailTitle":"Data Request",
"userName":"Chris Crumble",
"imageUrl":"http://my.host.com/image.jpg",
"userBirthDate":"1.3.1982",
"recipientName":"Hans Henson",
"uploadUrl":"https://my.upload.com/",
"authVideoUrl":"https://my.authvideo.com",
"records":["Document A","Document B"],
"authPhone":"113777840097"
}
}
The template uses var:records
like this:
...
</mj-text>
<mj-raw> {% if var:records:false %} </mj-raw>
<mj-text>
<p>
I, <strong>{{var:userName}}, born on {{var:userBirthDate}}</strong> am asking you to provide the following documents:
</p>
</mj-text>
<mj-raw> {% for item in var:records %} </mj-raw>
<mj-text>
{{item}}
</mj-text>
<mj-raw> {% endfor %} </mj-raw>
<mj-raw> {% else %} </mj-raw>
<mj-text>
<p>
I, <strong>{{var:userName}}, born on {{var:userBirthDate}}</strong>, am asking you to provide all my existing documents.
</p>
</mj-text>
<mj-raw> {% endif %} </mj-raw>
<mj-text>
...
As long as var:records
isn’t set in the data sent with the request, the mail is sent as expected. As soon as an (not empty) array value is provided with the request, the mail is blocked by Mailjet on sending without giving any further information on the reason.
No idea how to get this working.
UPDATE:
Thanks to Zhivko’s hint to the error reporting mechanism provided by Mailjet I was able to gain a little more insight into the problem.
The template produces the following error:
expression parsing error ## Unknown identifier: var:records:false ## near ## var:records:false ##
This still doesn’t make any sense to me as the line mentioned is an if
condition with a default value of false
defined for the case that no value for var:records
is provided with the api request.
Also the template only produces this error when the value is explicitely set in Vars
and is not empty.
My tests so far make me guess that it may have to do with the provided value being an array value as the line doesn’t cause any problems if the value is plain string.