Determine Relation Between Permalinks and Disk Paths

[hacdias]

There are two problems at play here:

1. Given a path on disk, what will be the permalink?
2. Given the permalink, what is the path on disk?

Most things for me have a 1:1 location, but not the posts and the categories. There is a bit of glue to make this work:

eagle/core/parser.go

Lines 72 to 77 in 799ba83

	parts := strings.Split(id, "/")
	if parts[1] == SpecialSection && !fr.Date.IsZero() {
	url.Path = fmt.Sprintf("/%04d/%02d/%02d/%s/", fr.Date.Year(), fr.Date.Month(), fr.Date.Day(), parts[len(parts)-2])
	} else {
	url.Path = id
	}

eagle/cmd/eagle/broken-links.go

Lines 70 to 73 in 799ba83

	_, err = fs.GetEntry("/" + core.SpecialSection + "/" + parts[1] + "/" + parts[4])
	if err == nil {
	return false, "", nil
	}

Idea

The idea would be to somehow leverage the information in Hugo configuration and be able to at least, given the path on disk, understand what the permalink is. Then we could either cache it in memory or in the helper database. Seems easy enough. This would help with sending and receiving webmentions, as well as maybe other social protocols in the future.

The hard thing here is to determine the permalink without glue. With glue, it is always possible. But that's not good.

[mvr1k]

Hi @hacdias, can I try solving this ?

[hacdias]

@mvr1k you can, but please note that this is a personal project and might not work for everyone, especially if you're not using it.