Go wrapper script: get Hugo config?

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Hi there, I’m using a Go wrapper script to pull in some external data and process it before building my site with Hugo, as well as for some linting, a deploy option etc.

For calling hugo server and hugo deploy from Go, I’m using the Execute function from github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commands, that works great.

But now, I’d like to read in some config values. I could call hugo config with the same Execute function, but the problem is that Execute only returns an error (or nil), and the output, which I need, ends up in the standard output.

My questions are as follows:

  1. Is using the Execute function the recommended way to get the config, or should I use github.com/gohugoio/hugo/config/allconfig somehow?
  2. If Execute is the way to go, how do I get the output? Could you perhaps add an io.Writer or similar as argument to Execute, that Hugo can write its output to?

Thank you and best, Ruben

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For future reference, I’ve “solved” this by capturing the standard output and then using the FromConfigString() function from "github.com/gohugoio/hugo/config" to parse that configuration.
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Hope this helps anyone trying to solve the same issue :smile: