Hey! I’ve been using Go for a few years now on the backend and now I’m giving it a Go (geddit?) on the frontend.
There’s something I am trying to do, maybe Hugo it doesn’t work like that or I’ve got it completely wrong, you tell me.
So, I’ve got a section called “discography”, inside I’ve got two albums “album1.html” and “album2.html”. I want each album to be in it’s own page, I don’t care about a list of albums.
In “layouts” I’ve got a “discography” directory and inside a “single.html” file.
Inside the “single.html” file, I’ve got a partial called album that displays the album information.
// layouts/discography/single.html
{{ define "main" }}
{{ partial "album" . }}
{{ end }}
Then, to test it, I load a json file, like so:
// layouts/partials/album.html
{{ $data := getJSON "static/album1.json" }}
it works 
So far so good, it works just fine. However this way I still have to create two identical layouts for each album, and I started to wonder, instead of having two identical partials (album), wouldn’t it be neat if I had ONE layout and fill it with data from a json file?
So far, I can’t. I’ve tried this:
In the layotus/partials/album I’ve tried to load the json file depending on the album requested.
So, I thought, well, let’s send the file url from the content/albums/album1.html using FrontMatter, such as:
// content/discography/album1.html
---
json_file: "static/album1.json"
---
and then, in the layouts/partials/album.html load it up:
{{ $data := .Params.json_file }} well, nope 
Hugo complains:
Failed to get JSON resource "": read /Users/transistor/Documents/WebServer/dem-hugo3: is a directory
What gives?!
Ok, so maybe not a fan of reading the .Param directly, I tried:
{{ $json:= printf "%s" .Params.json_file }}
{{$data := getJSON $json}}
well, nope
but Hugo complains with a different error:
Failed to render pages: render of "page" failed: execute of template failed: template: discography/single.html:3:3: executing "main" at <partial "album" .>: error calling partial: "/Users/transistor/Documents/WebServer/dem-hugo3/layouts/partials/album.html:7:11": execute of template failed: template: partials/album.html:7:11: executing "partials/album.html" at <getJSON $json>: error calling getJSON: Failed to create request for getJSON resource %!s(<nil>): parse "%!s(<nil>)": invalid URL escape "%!s"
and, you probably guessed it by now, the offending line 7 is:
{{$data := getJSON $json}}
Ok, so maybe the printf was too much, how about:
{{ $json:= .Params.json_file }}
again, nope
same error as the first attempt:
Failed to get JSON resource ""
I’ve also tried to use
{{ $data := $.Site.Date.albums.album1 }}
which, again, works fine when the $.Site... is fixed, but if I try to use a variable, doesn’t work.
So, or Hugo doesn’t support this way of creating content or I’m just very confused (honestly, it’s probably just me trying to do something off from what Hugo does, idk).
I there a way to do this? tl;dr bottom line:
I want to have one layout for all the albums, which is filled with data from a json file. And I want to create static pages, not loading dynamically on the server.
Is there another way?
Thank you for reading, looking forward to your input.