How to nest polymer templates properly? - templates

Question

I recently started learning polymer and am trying to use iron-ajax iron-list and templates together. For some reason the values are showing blank on screen, but cards are getting created. Taking example from this question, I created two polymer-elements search-list and search card. Search card for showing data and search list for fetching data and populating a list with card. Search list is following:
<link rel="import" href="../search-card/search-card.html">
<dom-module id="search-list">
<template>
<div>
<iron-ajax id="ajax" auto url="/data.json" handle-as="json" last-response="{{data}}"></iron-ajax>
<iron-list items="[[data]]" as="item">
<div class="flex">
<template is="dom-repeat" items="{{data}}">
<search-card></search-card>
<span>Hi</span>
<span>[[item.profile]]</span>
</template>
</div>
</iron-list>
</div>
</template>
<script>
(function () {
Polymer({
is: 'search-list',
properties: {
items: {
type: Array,
notify: true,
}
},
ready: function() {
this.items = [];
}
});
})();
</script>
</dom-module>
Search-card is the follwing:
<dom-module id="search-card">
<style>
</style>
<template>
<paper-material style="margin:15px;">
<a href="[[item.profile]]">
<img width="100" height="100" src="[[item.pic]]">
</a>
<div class="">
<div>Name: <span>[[item.name]]</span></div>
<div>Location: <span>[[item.location]]</span></div>
<div>Email: <span>[[item.email]]</span></div>
</div>
</paper-material>
</template>
<script>
(function () {
Polymer({
is: 'search-card',
properties: {
item: {
type: Object,
notify: true,
}
},
ready: function() {
this.item = {}
}
});
})();
</script>
</dom-module>
All the span fields consisting of item data are showing blank. What am I doing wrong ? How to fix it ?

Answer 1

For a start, you have to put the contents of the iron-list element within a template.
<iron-list items="[[data]]" as="item">
<template>
<div class="flex">
<template is="dom-repeat" items="{{data}}">
<search-card></search-card>
<span>Hi</span>
<span>[[item.profile]]</span>
</template>
</div>
</template>
</iron-list>