Separate expression parsing and rendering from Context#resolve.

lib/liquid/variable_lookup.rb

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+module Liquid
+  class VariableLookup
+    SQUARE_BRACKETED = /\A\[(.*)\]\z/m
+    COMMAND_METHODS = ['size'.freeze, 'first'.freeze, 'last'.freeze]
+
+    def self.parse(markup)
+      new(markup)
+    end
+
+    def initialize(markup)
+      lookups = markup.scan(VariableParser)
+
+      name = lookups.shift
+      if name =~ SQUARE_BRACKETED
+        name = Expression.parse($1)
+      end
+      @name = name
+
+      @lookups = lookups
+      @command_flags = 0
+
+      @lookups.each_index do |i|
+        lookup = lookups[i]
+        if lookup =~ SQUARE_BRACKETED
+          lookups[i] = Expression.parse($1)
+        elsif COMMAND_METHODS.include?(lookup)
+          @command_flags |= 1 << i
+        end
+      end
+    end
+
+    def evaluate(context)
+      name = context.evaluate(@name)
+      object = context.find_variable(name)
+
+      @lookups.each_index do |i|
+        key = context.evaluate(@lookups[i])
+
+        # If object is a hash- or array-like object we look for the
+        # presence of the key and if its available we return it
+        if object.respond_to?(:[]) &&
+          ((object.respond_to?(:has_key?) && object.has_key?(key)) ||
+           (object.respond_to?(:fetch) && key.is_a?(Integer)))
+
+          # if its a proc we will replace the entry with the proc
+          res = context.lookup_and_evaluate(object, key)
+          object = res.to_liquid
+
+          # Some special cases. If the part wasn't in square brackets and
+          # no key with the same name was found we interpret following calls
+          # as commands and call them on the current object
+        elsif @command_flags & (1 << i) != 0 && object.respond_to?(key)
+          object = object.send(key).to_liquid
+
+          # No key was present with the desired value and it wasn't one of the directly supported
+          # keywords either. The only thing we got left is to return nil
+        else
+          return nil
+        end
+
+        # If we are dealing with a drop here we have to
+        object.context = context if object.respond_to?(:context=)
+      end
+
+      object
+    end
+  end
+end