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shadow7853
shadow7853

Reputation: 13

Docpad page generation from JSON Arrary or similar

is there any way to configure DocPad to generate pages starting from a json array saved in external file (or inline string) instead of from a collection of files?

To clarify, for show posts details I fetch from a JSON file, see below.

instead of this: <% for post in @getCollection("html").findAll({ relativeOutDirPath: 'posts' }).toJSON(): %>

I use this: <% for post in JSON.parse @include("posts.json"): %>

Ok. Now I would to generate the post pages directly from this JSON and not creating a page for each post like in the example..

For example I would to create page with url /posts/{urlname}.html when {urlname} exist in JSON like this:

[
  { "id": "1", "urlname": "prod1", "metadata": { "title": "val1" } },
  { "id": "2", "metadata": null },
  { "id": "3", "urlname": "prod3", "metadata": { "title": "val1b", "prop2": "val2b" } }
]

I would to generate /posts/prod1.html and /posts/prod2.html page with metadata those in metadata properties..

Thank's for the replies.. ;)

PS Great work!!!!!!!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 678

Answers (1)

balupton
balupton

Reputation: 48650

Currently there is no official way to inject data into the DocPad in memory database besides having it parsed from the file system on the src directory (the way we are all use to). HOWEVER, this feature (called importers) is the next big todo for DocPad, you can find the task issue here.

For the meantime, you could include the JSON inside your template data, which is suitable for content listings, but not suitable for providing individual documents for each entry.

Upvotes: 1

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