Merge pull request #1775 from Shopify/allow-nil-template-source

allow non-string template source

lib/liquid/template.rb

@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ module Liquid
     # Returns self for easy chaining
     def parse(source, options = {})
       parse_context = configure_options(options)
+      source = source.to_s.to_str
 
       unless source.valid_encoding?
         raise SyntaxError, parse_context.locale.t("errors.syntax.invalid_template_encoding")

lib/liquid/tokenizer.rb

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ module Liquid
     attr_reader :line_number, :for_liquid_tag
 
     def initialize(source, line_numbers = false, line_number: nil, for_liquid_tag: false)
-      @source         = source.to_s.to_str
+      @source         = source
       @line_number    = line_number || (line_numbers ? 1 : nil)
       @for_liquid_tag = for_liquid_tag
       @offset         = 0

test/integration/template_test.rb

@@ -349,4 +349,10 @@ class TemplateTest < Minitest::Test
 
     assert_equal('Liquid syntax error: Invalid template encoding', e.message)
   end
+
+  def test_allows_non_string_values_as_source
+    assert_equal('', Template.parse(nil).render)
+    assert_equal('1', Template.parse(1).render)
+    assert_equal('true', Template.parse(true).render)
+  end
 end