View is never rejected when template is not found

[sebeling]

When creating an instance of a view and the Ajax call to retrieve the template fails (404, 500, etc), the error callback function is calling the checkText function with an empty string parameter, resulting in a "There is no template or an empty template at..." exception being thrown:

error: function() {
checkText("", url);
callback(404);
}

The exception terminates the rendering of the view and the view promise is never rejected. There is no way to determine that the rendering of the view failed and no way to perform custom error handling for the broken view. If the template cannot be found, the view should be rejected, allowing the error to be captured via the .fail callback function on the view promise:

var viewPromise = $.View('badTempatePath', { id: '123' });
$.when(viewPromise)
.done(function(markup) {
//Do something with template markup
})
.fail(function(){
//Handle broken view with custom error markup
});

[justinbmeyer]

This needs to get fixed in CanJS. But thanks for reporting. It will be fixed in 3.3.