Is there a possibility to use Sort on .Paginate?

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Hello everybody,

Can we use function sort on Paginate.

I’ve tried

{{ $paginator := .Paginate ((where .Data.Pages "Type" "foo") sort .Data.Pages "Type" "foo" ".Params.dateAdd" "desc") 51 }}
{{ range $paginator.Pages }}

No errors but no sorting

Thanks.

2

That function call looks wrong. Shouldn’t it be something like (untested)

{{ $paginator := .Paginate (sort (where .Data.Pages "Type" "foo") "Type" "foo" ".Params.dateAdd" "desc") }}

Note how there is only a single reference to .Data.Pages, and the value returned by the where call is passed to the sort function as the first argument.

3

Thank you but unfortunately it doesn’t work

4

Doesn’t work in what sense? Do you get an error message? The content is output but unsorted? There is no output?

5

First of all, thank you for taking time off my problem. :smiley:

My error message

executing "main" at <.Paginate>: error calling Paginate: unsupported type in paginate, got []*hugolib.Page
6

This seems like a bug to me… Paginate should really accept a []*hugolib.Page. It would be great if you could file that. If you have a minute it would be great if you could file it.

In the meantime, you can get around it with something like this:

{{ $uselessPaginator := .Paginate .Data.Pages }}
{{ range $page := last $uselessPaginator.NumberOfElements (first (sub (mul $uselessPaginator.PageNumber $uselessPaginator.PageSize) 1) $pages) }}
  Do stuff here
{{ end }}

The idea is that you create a paginator just to get Hugo to generate the pages, but instead of actually using it to output data you use your own array ($pages can be whatever you want), sorted however you please. It’s a bit of a hack, but not too bad.