Hidden new feature

tips & tricks
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There is a hidden and very useful new feature in this commit (coming in the next Hugo):

It would be cool if someone could guess what it is and verify that it works … :slight_smile:

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Something to do with maps?

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alphabetical sorting somewhere where it was not possible?

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Yes it is.

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Awesome but https://github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure has no release notes, so I guess that’s all I’ll be able to guess.

I know what I want though: Maps whose keys are ordered in accordance with the argument order of slice and dict.

So that will be my guess.

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OK, you’re not going to figure it out.

It is the map support in the cast library.

I have not tested this myself, but it should make it possible to set params in config.toml via OS env variables, something ala:

HUGO_PARAMS="{\"param1\": \"Some Value\"}" hugo

But I have not tested this, yet …

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The above may look exotic, but it has been a recurring questions here on the forum.

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Nerver had the use case myself, but I can see how convenient it can ben when needing many env variables.

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I thought, this was the feature: https://github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure/commit/1241c370bce5018324ddfc93cae48e56d1405764

Would have been great if we could convert structs to maps in templates :slight_smile:

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What use case? To range over it?

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Yes, that’s what I was thinking. Debugging arbitrary structs (GitInfo, FileInfo, SiteInfo, etc) will get then so much easier.