Template lookup for custom output [Resolved]

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Hi, all

I am currently using 0.20.2

> hugo version
Hugo Static Site Generator v0.20.2 windows/amd64 BuildDate: 2017-04-16T11:19:32-04:00

I would like to dynamically generate some property values as an output with “properties” suffix. So far, I have added new media type and output format as follows in config.toml

[mediaTypes]
[mediaTypes."text/plain"]
suffix = "properties"

[outputFormats.eclssetup]
mediaType = "text/plain"
isPlainText = true

My content path looks like this

content/configuration/dev/app1/eclssetup.properties

In the front matter, I have added

layout = "eclssetup_7_1"
outputs = ["eclssetup"]

thinking that template lookup will find

layouts/configuration/eclssetup_7_1.eclssetup.properties

However, when I open the page with url, https://localhost:1313/configuration/dev/app1/eclssetup.properties, only front matter section was displayed instead of the content from template.

What am I doing wrong?

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*.properties is not a recognized INPUT format in Hugo (md, asciidoc etc.). I have seen it before that people get confused by this re. the new OUTPUT format feature. I see that we should probably do better in this area (with other textual INPUT formats with front matter), but that is currently not the case.

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I’ve changed the input extension to “md”

content/configuration/dev/app1/eclssetup.md

and tried to open it with https://localhost:1313/configuration/dev/app1/eclssetup.properties but got 404. https://localhost:1313/configuration/dev/app1/eclssetup/ output blank. Can anyone tell what is wrong with this?

4

You have to show us the repository/full project. Guessing with fragments is near impossible.

5

I cannot post the entire site that I’ve been building because it’s internal project but here’s the gist of what I am trying to achieve.

6

Try http://localhost:1313/configuration/7_1/azuredev/app1/eclssetup/index.properties

The built-in server only shows index.html by default below /.

Alternatively you may use ugly URLs, which will give you:

http://localhost:1313/configuration/7_1/azuredev/app1/eclssetup.properties

You could also set the full URL in some front matter, I guess.

To add to this, I would recommend you create a completely new MIME type (media type) and not redefine text/plain, but I guess up to you. To get something else in “index.properties” you can set the BaseName on the output format definition.

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Awesome! I’ve created new MIME type ‘text/properties’ and have ‘uglyurls = true’ in config.toml, both URLs that you suggested automagically worked. Thanks for your help.

uglyurls = true

[mediaTypes]
[mediaTypes."text/properties"]
suffix = "properties"

[outputFormats.eclssetup]
mediaType = "text/properties"
#baseName = "eclssetup"
isPlainText = true
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A related tip: You can also set noUgly=true on a given output format to override the global setting.

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