Children Array empty

[DavidKabelitz]

Describe the bug

Hi,
some navigations of existing projects are broken. Not sure for how long tbh.

Nodes query:

{% set nodesMain = craft.navigation.nodes()
.handle('mainMenu')
.with(['children'])
.level(1)
.all() %}

{% nav node in nodesMain %}
{% if node.children |length %}

{% endif %}
{% endnav %}

Either in a nav or for loop the childs are not rendered and the childs array is empty.

Childs are rendered when we use:

{% ifchildren %}

{% children %}

{% endifchildren %}

But we need a custom part for the childs

Steps to reproduce

Craft CMS version

4.13.7

Plugin version

2.1.1

Multi-site?

No response

Additional context

No response

[engram-design]

I don't see any issue on my end I'm afraid, altering your template slightly:

{% set nodesMain = craft.navigation.nodes()
    .handle('mainMenu')
    .with(['children'])
    .level(1)
    .all() %}

{% nav node in nodesMain %}
    - {{ node.url }}<br>

    {% for subNode in node.children %}
        -- {{ subNode.url }}<br>
    {% endfor %}
{% endnav %}

Produces a correct hierarchy for me:

- https://craft4.test/page-1
-- https://craft4.test/another-page
-- https://craft4.test/test-page
- https://craft4.test/page-2
-- https://craft4.test/some-items

Can you share a screenshot of your navigation node builder, in case that's a factor? Does it work without eager-loading the children

[DavidKabelitz]

@engram-design Hi Josh,
we had it the same way like your answer. The if statement it just used to show icons and class names at the parent node.

And yes without eager loading everything is back.

[engram-design]

What sort of nodes are they in your navigation? Entries, custom or other? I don't think it'll make a difference, but just checking.

[DavidKabelitz]

Mix of Categories, Entries and some custom

[DavidKabelitz]

@engram-design Hi Josh, how do we continue with that one here?

[engram-design]

I'm still not able to replicate this behaviour, sorry. I'm not sure how eager-loading could omit the child nodes from the structure output either.

If you're up for sending your database to [email protected] we can take a look.