when prompt object has when property later prompts just ignored

[bung87]

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and that prompt has when doesn't show too here's the prompt in the middle of list.

//...
 {
        type: "input",
        name: "name",
        message: "Project name(private)",
        validate: (e) => Boolean(validatePackageName(e.name)),
        when: (e) =>{
          console.log(e)
          return  e.sourceType === 'private'
        }
      },

[a-axton]

I've been wanting to use when also, I looked at the code of node-plop and they are filtering out any prompts with when so it must be intentional, not sure why though. https://github.com/plopjs/node-plop/blob/a187e28a5ddc4c6b8e6d9495d95151daf1a2f4c2/src/prompt-bypass.js#L120

[bung87]

Thanks point out that, that's weird behaviour , it haven't been documented , the document says it's a plain prompt object, and it doesn't show any message as the code.

[crutchcorn]

@amwmedia are you able to explain a bit more why this code was written? I'm admittedly not clear what it's doing here, either

If it is intentional, let's go ahead and document it

[amwmedia]

the prompt bypass functionality... where you can tack on the answers to prompts as part of the initial command, basically pre-answers prompts and removes them from the chain. Whatever prompts are left are passed to inquirer for resolution. Once the code hits a "branch" in the prompt chain, we can't know ahead of time how the rest of the prompt data corresponds to question objects. Due to this unknown, I added logic to "bail out" when the potential issue occurs.