Template files - current filename in generated html

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Is there a way to get the template filename/realpath during generation? I’m using a sort of complicated theme and it would really help if I could embed the filename as a HTML comment during generation.

I realize that within each template/partial, I could always write out the filename - but this is manual and does not work well if you rename the file etc later.

What I’d like to do:


<!-- template: {{ .Template.File}} --> => <!-- /theme/themename/layout/partial/somefile.html -->
and if the template is overridden then of course: <!-- layout/partial/somefile.html -->

Thanks!

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You probably want to review https://gohugo.io/variables/files/ and https://gohugo.io/templates/files/.

Edit: I misread the question, thought template was a verb in that context.

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I’m curious about this as well. After some experimenting, it looks like {{ .File.Path }} only works for content files, not template files.

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@maiki - I don’t see anything on either of those two pages that’ll do the trick. Am I missing something obvious?

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This is not possible.

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Thanks bep… Is this something that’ll qualify for a feature request? If so, please point me to how to file one.

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It sounds hard to fix on the Hugo side (not impossible, but hard enought that I’m not doing it on my “hobby time”).

You can try to raise an issue here: Issues · golang/go · GitHub – where it probably belongs.

But I would not be too optimistic.

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I took a shot - it’s ugly with downcasts everywhere but works as expected - though I’m not able to get the top level template (section, home etc). Just putting this here since @zwbetz also found this interesting.

Any pointers on where to find the top level page template?

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I would expect to see _default/baseof.html if that is the template, which I guess would be the hard part in this.

A quick tip: It would be much more memory effective to write the header to the writer before you execute.

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Thank you… I have a quite a stripped down patch now without any of the ugly downcasts. Also, the root template name _default/single.html etc are now rendered

However, running into a weird error where if the template is ‘alias’ then calling fileAndFilename crashes with a panic on L212 at fi, err := fs.Stat(filename)

I’ve got a check and don’t try to resolve the template file name if it’s alias but would obviously like to understand what’s going on.

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I’ve filed a ticket at https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/5453 so its easier to discuss code/pr