Call to Stash embed being evaluated inside a Switchee statement when it shouldn't be

Question

I have a problem with a Stash embedded template being called when it's inside a switch statement (or a conditional, already tried that too) which should evaluate as false.

For example:

{exp:switchee variable="{stash:_nav_active}" parse="inward"}

    {case value="home|404"}{/case}

    {case default="Yes"}

        {stash:embed
            name="partials:nav:{segment_1}"
            process="start"
        }

    {/case}

{/exp:switchee}

even when stash:_nav_active equals 404, the embed is being called and because the segment doesn't exist, I get:

Stash: the file "/stash_templates/partials/nav/made-up-segment.html" was not found.

Answer 1

I think since your stash embed is set to process on 'start' it will be run first before switchee, which is why you'd see a 'file not found' error if there's no stash file at that location. Try changing your embed to process="inline" and see if you still get the same error.

Answer 2

Pretty sure I recall that if you're evaluating a stash variable you can remove the square brackets.

variable="stash:my_var" parse="inward"