Transfering data from iron router DATA function to template

Question

So I have this DATA context that I'm gripping and cant figure out how to pass it to the template. Could anyone show or direct me to an example? Do I need a template helper where I will go once more into the DB to retrieve the data, since I already have the data context in the iron router...?

ROUTER.js

Router.route("/employer", {
  name:"employer",
  template:"employer",
  layoutTemplate:'employerLayout',
  // controller:"ProfileController",
    data: function(){
      var currentuser = Meteor.userId();
      Meteor.call("getEmployer", currentuser, function(error, result){
        if(error){
          console.log("error", error);
        }
        if(result){
           return result;
        }
      });

    },

EMPLYER.html

<template name="employer">
  <h1> Employer</h1>

  <h2>{{result}}</h2>

</template>

COLLECTION

meteor:PRIMARY> db.employer.find().pretty()
{
    "_id" : "qCFGZa4ogc5LR56PL", 
    "createdAt" : ISODate("2015-07-18T13:19:16.098Z"),
    "user" : "owfJ4ozrfsp26o8G4" 
}

For example I would like to write out

  <template name="employer">
      <h1> Employer</h1>

      <h2>{{_id}}</h2>
      <h2>{{createdAt}}</h2>
      <h2>{{user}}</h2>


    </template>

David Weldon David Weldon · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-19T14:57:32

The data hook needs to be synchronous so you can't call a method from within it (and expect a result). However, you could easily move this responsibility to your template with any of the answers to this question. Alternatively, you could try calling a reactive-method from within your data hook - I've never actually done that but it seems like it could work:

data: function() {
  var currentuser = Meteor.userId();
  return ReactiveMethod.call('getEmployer', currentUser);
}

Side note - if it turns out you always call getEmployer only for the current user, then you don't need to pass Meteor.userId(), as this.userId is available to the method.

Transfering data from iron router DATA function to template

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