deflisten script not running

[sl4v3]

i have these deflisten vars:

(deflisten current_workspace :initial "000" scripts/gaw.sh)
(deflisten workspaces :initial "[]" "scripts/workspaces.sh")

(defwidget workspaces []
(box :orientation "h"
:space-evenly true
:class "workspaces"
:hexpand true

  (for workspace in workspaces
    (button "${current_workspace}"))))

When i run this, current_workspace is never changed from it's initial value. In fact, the scripts/gaw.sh is never run (I echo the time to a file to verify this). However if I change the for loop to this:

  (for workspace in "[1, 2, 3]"
    (button "${current_workspace}"))))

It does run and the variable is updated properly. So something about iterating over workspaces causes current_workspace variable not to be updated. workspaces is a json and works fine when I access the fields (workspaces.id). Any ideas?

[sl4v3]

After some more digging, I was able to find that this is a eww bug:

#922

The problem is that workspaces is set to an initial value of "[]", so I guess eww determines incorrectly that the for loop body will never be executed. So it determines there is no need to run the script to update current_workspace. A fix was to set the initial value of workspaces to "[1]" rather than empty.