renderTemplateSource produces an empty string about knockout-amd-helpers

[rniemeyer]

@AndyCJ - are you seeing a specific problem with lazy loading templates? That is generally how I have used knockout-amd-helpers (at least for a dev build). When the template content becomes available, then the template/module binding is re-evaluated. I may be misunderstanding your comment/issue, but I am happy to help you sort it out. Thanks!

@rniemeyer I was using some third party code that makes a direct call to renderTemplateSource, so there's no template binding.

This is no longer an issue for me as I've move on to using a different approach.

[imtonyjoseph]

@rniemeyer @AndyCJ Hi there,
I am facing an issue which is pretty similar to what is mentioned in the above issue.

My code internally calls renderTemplateSource and the text function returns an empty string (templateText) in the code below. Since require is fetching the file asynchronously.

var templateText = templateSource['text']();

This empty text is then returned to be appended to the template HTML which I am trying to load, which looks something like this
<script type="text/html" id="EDIT_CELL_TEMPLATE"> <div data-bind=" attr: { style: $parent.cellStyle($cellContext, ''), css: $parent.cellClass($cellContext), }, template: { data: $parent.inlineEditViewModel, name: $parent.getModuleInfo().viewName }"> </div> </script>

The above template resolves into an input component.

Although the UI loads up perfectly, the JET internal code is trying to render the above script and focus on the input component which the template resolves to. But since the function renderTemplateSource returns empty text while trying to resolve the above templates nodes, the HTML does not contain any focusable element and is left with only the non-focusable elements in the script above. This prevents the JET component from getting into a certain edit mode which causes undesired behaviour.

Is there any way we could work around this issue?
Any help would be deeply appreciated.
Thanks