Using inline partials in content adapters?

support
1

Hello,

I’m experimenting with Content Adapters, specifically I’d like to be able to use Go templates and pass these as the content to the .AddPagemethod. I came up with a simple example based on a combination of the examples in Content adapters and define as follows, which I added to content/test/_content.gotmpl:

{{ define "_partials/inline/foo.html" }}
  {{ printf "The _Hunchback of Notre Dame_ was written by Victor Hugo in %v." .answer }}
{{ end }}

{{ $content := dict
  "mediaType" "text/markdown"
  "value" (partial "inline/foo.html" (dict "answer" 1831))
}}

{{ $page := dict
  "content" $content
  "kind" "section"
  "path" "../test"
  "title" "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
}}

{{ .AddPage $page }}

Unfortunately, this results in the following error message:

error building site: 
process: readAndProcessContent: "/content/test/_content.gotmpl:7:11": 
template: /content/test/_content.gotmpl:7:11: 
executing "/content/test/_content.gotmpl" at <partial "inline/foo.html" (dict "answer" 1831)>: 
error calling partial: partial "inline/foo.html" not found

Is it possible to define inline Go templates from Content Adapters in this way, or is that unsupported?

Thanks and best,

Ruben

2

It’s unsupported. I guess we could make that work, but you would need to create a GitHub issue remind me of that…

It is possible to use inline templates, which may or may not be what you want:

{{ define "foo" }}
  {{ printf "The _Hunchback of Notre Dame_ was written by Victor Hugo in %v." .answer }}
{{ end }}
{{ template "foo" . }}
1 Like
3

Thank you @bep for the super quick response, I’ve created an issue here: Add support for inline partials in content adapters · Issue #14480 · gohugoio/hugo · GitHub

Thank you also for the hint on template, it doesn’t fit my use case currently, because the output can’t be stored in a variable. But good to know that that does work.

I think as a workaround, I’ll just have to build the “template” in a string with printf—less elegant and readable, but it should work for now. It would be really awesome if this functionality could be added, but I understand it’s a niche feature.

4

This topic was automatically closed 2 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.