Is possible to read page variables dynamically

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1

Something like the follows.

{{/* $var is dynamic, description, date */}}
{{ $var := "title" }}
{{ with index . $var }}
  ...
{{ end }}

Error as follows, is there a workaround to do that?

can’t index item of type hugolib.pageState
2

actually

  • the page object is not an object or a simple map but some internal representation
  • the fields you want to access are not fields but methods

I’m not aware of a functionality to directly call a named method.

What you could do:

  • Create your own map and then index

     {{ warnf "======== static =============" }}
 {{ $pageFields := dict "Draft" .Draft "Name" .Name "Description" .Description "Date" .Date "Title" .Title }}
 {{ warnf "MAP INDEX %s = %v" "Title" (index $pageFields "Title") }}
 {{ range $k, $v := $pageFields }}
    {{ warnf "MAP RANGE %s = %v" $k $v }}
 {{ end }}

  • dynamically create a map from the Page object and access the fields

    ONLY for debugging !!! may change anytime

    {{ with transform.Unmarshal (debug.Dump .) }}

3

Thanks, those approaches would slow down build performance, it would better if I can avoid creating new variables to store duplicate data, but as you said, it may impossible.

4

The above is possible, but not all page variables will be in that map.

5

What about that one using apply

{{ $arg := "site.Title" }}
{{ $val := index (apply (slice "noop") $arg) 0 }}
{{ warnf "Value of %s is %s" $arg $val }}

{{ $arg = "page.Title" }}
{{ $val = index (apply (slice "noop") $arg) 0 }}
{{ warnf "Value of %s is %s" $arg $val }}

{ $arg = "Title" }}
{{ $val = index (apply (slice "noop") (print "page.%s" $arg)) 0 }}
{{ warnf "Value of %s is %s" $arg $val }}
6

These are clever:

{{ index (apply (slice 0) "page.Title") 0 }}
{{ index (apply (slice 0) "site.Title") 0 }}

But this will not will work:

{{ range .Pages }}
  {{ index (apply (slice 0) "page.Title") 0 }}
{{ end }}

https://gohugo.io/functions/global/page/#warnings

7

Thank you all very much :heart:, will try later.

8

Thanks a lot, summary it up here, hope it helps others.

Get Dynamic Variable Of Page

{{ $var := "page.Title" }}
{{ index (apply (slice 0) $var) 0 }}

Get Dynamic Params Of Page

The above approach can not used to get parameter, since parameter value isn’t a function, please use the below approach instead.

{{ with index .Params $param }}