I have an existing razor 1 / mvc 3 view, with a few nested if
- very simple, but after upgrading to razor 2 / mvc 4 it is complaining at runtime and compile (BuildViews
) about } expected
. It used to work fine.
- I've checked all the elements are well-formed / closed
- I've checked that all the
{
/ }
are balanced - this isn't the end-of-file issue
What can be wrong?
A number of legacy razor oddities were fixed in the razor 2 / mvc 4 upgrade; one interesting gotcha is that in razor 1, the following is legal (in a code region):
string foo = @Some.Complex.Expression;
Note that the @
there is superfluous and incorrect, but that razor 1 does not complain. However, razor 2 is more fussy and gets confused, reporting the } expected
error. This line should be replaced with:
string foo = Some.Complex.Expression;
This is a bit subtle, because the error that occurs has nothing to do with braces ({
/}
), and can be some lines away from the reported line.