Hello, This is again in continuation of the debugprint.html partial that I’ve been working on lately. The issue is of a different kind this time. I’d like to call {{ partial "debugprint.html" .File }} in my template, and have it print all variables listed in Hugo | File Variables . The documentat…

Can you use the built-in Go text/template call function to execute the method? Something like: {{ call (printf ".%s" $idx) }}

[image] moorereason: call (printf “.%s” $idx) No, I get: ERROR 2017/11/14 12:33:51 Error while rendering “page”: template: /home/kmodi/stow/pub_dotfiles/emacs/dot-emacs.d/elisp/ox-hugo/test/site/themes/bare_min/layouts/_default/single.html:78:7: executing “main” at <partial "debugprint…>: e…

@moorereason This issue is related to How to convert a string to a "symbol" or vice-versa . call expects a function identifier, not a string containing that… call Returns the result of calling the first argument, which must be a function, with the remaining arguments as parameters. Thus "call .X…

I had even tried this: {{ $fileVarNames := (slice "UniqueID" "BaseFileName" "TranslationBaseName" "Lang" "Section" "LogicalName" "Dir" "Ext" "Path") }}  {{ $uniqueID := (call .UniqueID) }} {{ $baseFileName := (call .BaseFileName) …

I came up with this hack: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo/blob/bd7171269413cc2abe00b8672f575758ffba3b16/test/site/themes/bare_min/layouts/partials/debugprint.html#L30-L49 to get around this limitation. With that, this {{ partial "debugprint.html" (slice "File" .) }} will print all File objec…

@moorereason OK, I think this can probably be fixed in hugo. Earlier I thought that this was a Go templates limitation. May be it is, but can you confirm if this is fixable or not in hugo? Scope of .File in partial So, in any page template file like single.html, this works! {{ with .File }} {{…

Maybe related to this: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20503

I tried putting {{ call .Path }} in the filedebug.html partial, but it gives the same error.

In any case: This isn’t a Hugo issue, so create the issue in the Go repo. But if you want their attention, you should create a standalone (non Hugo) main func reproduceable.

[image] bep: This isn’t a Hugo issue Isn’t partial a Hugo template function? The discrepancy is in the scope/context inside a partial vs with. But if you want their attention, you should create a standalone (non Hugo) main func reproduceable. That’s completely out of my knowledge domain …

How to specify a function call instead of field reference in a partial?

kaushalmodi January 23, 2018, 7:46pm 21

As of Hugo v0.35-DEV version, I confirm this fix. Thanks!

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How to specify a function call instead of field reference in a partial?

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