How to render single.html without md files?

support
1

Hello,

I posted a follow-up question under another similar one but not solved. My goal is to make all job details page working without showing 404 and a bunch of md files in my content folders. So I start a new topic here:

Currently, I have /content/careers/default.md with below content:

...
type: "careers"
title: "171"
...

All jobs are listed in /layouts/careers/list.html via a successgul API get call:
…

<div>
{{ $allJobs := getJSON "MY_JOB_API" }}

<ul>
<li>{{ job_170}}</li>
<li>{{ job_171}}></li>
</ul>
</div>

…

Normal HTML in /layouts/careers/single.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
blahblah.........

Current Performance:

When users click on job 171 on “XZY.com/careers/”, they will be directed to “XYZ.com/careers/171” and this is good because I have title: “171” in my markdown file. However, when users click on another job like 170, they will be directed to “XYZ.com/careers/170” which is correct but it shows 404 instead because I don’t have a markdown file with title: “170” inside.

Expectation:

Not having a bunch of md files for each job in content/careers folder, users should be directed to “XYZ.com/careers/clicked_ID” rather than 404 no matter which job they click on “XYZ.com/careers/”.

What I did:

Option 1 – dynamic title in front matter file:

In /content/careers/default.md :

...
type: "careers"
title: "{{ $jobID }}"
...
{{ $allJobs := getJSON "MY_URL_TO_GET_ALL_JOBS_WITH_IDS" }}
{{ range $allJobs.data }}
{{ $jobID := .id }}

Or

...
type: "careers"
title: "[1, 2, 3, ..., 20]" (some sort of array of all job ids)
...

Option 2 – workaround with shortcode and not having permalinks in config:

In config.toml :

.......(other code)......
(no specified permalinks for careers)
.......(other code)......

In /content/careers/default.md :

...
type: "careers"
...
<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
      <head> 
      <meta charset="UTF-8> 
      etc..

I’ve been searched for LOTS of Hugo articles, blogs, and discussions but no luck. I really appreciate your help!

Jen

2

I mentioned elsewhere, but there is no facility to generate pages from data at this time. You can follow this open github issue:

If the data includes a link to an external page with details, you could parse it in a list page to at least give a list of links on a single page. Or, you could script a solution to pull the json via a script using curl, then if there is enough various data in the json to make pages, you could generate the markdown files using tools like jq.