Making a custom collection in shopify liquid - liquid

Question

I want to make a custom collection in collection.liquid based on some conditional scenario and for this I applied concat , append and join but the problem is that it returns ProductDropProductDropProductDropProductDrop... or LazyProductDropCollectionLazyProductDropCollection instead of products. Following is the code snippet

{% assign custom_products = '' %}
{% for product in collections["paneer-easy-indie-bowls"].products %}
  {% assign custom_products = custom_products | append: product %}
{% endfor %}

instead of append I tried both join and concat but returns ProductDropProductDropProductDropProductDrop...

{% assign custom_products = custom_products | concat: product %}

then I tried the following:

{% capture custom_products %}
  {% for product in collections["paneer-easy-indie-bowls"].products %}
    {{ custom_products }},{{ product.handle }}
  {% endfor %}
{% endcapture %}

{% assign custom_products = custom_products | split: ',' %}

{% for product in custom_products %}
  {{ product}}
{% endfor %}

but this code not appending the products in right way. I want products like same as {{collection.products}} . Any suggestion ?

Answer 1

If I read your pseudo-code correctly, you are trying to build a collection of products from a collection of products. Which leads to the question, why? Since you already have a perfect collection, use it as is!