Stash List Passed to Embed - Adding Blank Items

Question

Wondering if this is a bug or a parse order issue (probably parse_order).

Code is below, but basically i am trying to work with template partials approach and showing related videos for an article entry. The related videos field is a relationship and it can accept multiple.

In the main article template i store all related videos in a list. Then embed a partial below to display the videos.

The using stash:get_list in the embed to loop through the videos.

The issue i am seeing is that in the main template the list has 1 item, but once in the embed, the list has 5 items, 4 of which are blank records.

Working on Stash 2.6.0 and EE 2.9.2

---Main template article/view.html

{!-- Channel Entries --}
{exp:channel:entries channel="article" url_title="{segment_2}" limit="1"}

{!-- RELATED VIDEOS --}
{article_videos status="open|Featured"}
   {exp:stash:append_list name="videos" trim="yes" parse_tags="yes"}
      {stash:video_entry_id}{article_videos:entry_id}{/stash:video_entry_id}
   {/exp:stash:append_list}
{/article_videos}


{!-- DEBUG, OUTPUT = 1 --}
{exp:stash:get_list name="videos" prefix="related_videos"}
   {related_videos:total_results}
{/exp:stash:get_list}

{stash:embed:partials:videos}

{/exp:channel:entries}

---Embedded stash partial stash_embeds/partials/videos.html

{!-- DEBUG, OUTPUT = 5 --}
{exp:stash:get_list name="videos" prefix="related_videos"}
   {related_videos:total_results}
{/exp:stash:get_list}

Odd indeed, but it is messing up our conditionals and showing a bunch of blank images and cells.

Thanks, in advance

Answer 1

This is odd indeed! Have you tried moving the partial outside of the exp:channel:entries loop? In case its a parsing bug and the stash:embed:partials:videos tag is getting replaced multiple times or there's a parse order thing within stash?

Also, have you tried a straight forward {embed=""} on the videos partial, instead of the stash method?

Either of these methods may yeild clues if not a work around. Let us know how you get on!