webgen users - Aug 2007 - (no subject)

[Using webgen 0.4.5, ruby 1.8.5, Ubuntu Linux 7.04]

I want "index.page" to use "index.template" and all other
pages to use "default.template".

Attempt 1: Just set the "template" key in "index.page":
   ---
   title: "Index Page"
   template: index.page
   --- content, markdown
   ...

Result: "index.page" gets rendered with "index.template"
*and* "default.template" (nested).  The docs say that this can happen
and recommend using "template: -" to stop it.

Attempt 2: Now change "index.template" to stop the template pipeline:
   ---
   template: -
   --- content, html

Result: No change.

What am I doing wrong?

Also, while attempting to try various things, I ran into some unexpected
behavior with "defaultMetaInfo".  I thought that it specified
the default values, and each page was allowed to override those
values.  However, it looks like the "defaultMetaInfo" values are
overriding the meta info in each page.



config.yaml:

   File/PageHandler

      defaultMetaInfo:

         title: "Default Title"



src/index.page:

   ---

   title: "Index Page"

   --- content, markdown

   ...



When I run webgen, all my pages have the title "Default Title".  If I
remove the "title" entry from the "defaultMetaInfo", then
all the pages
have their correct titles.  Is this expected?  It doesn''t seem to make
sense for the top-level "defaults" to *always* override page-specific
settings, so I wonder what I''m missing here...


- Kannan


       
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Hi,
> Attempt 1: Just set the "template" key in "index.page":
>    ---
>    title: "Index Page"
>    template: index.page
                index.template
>    --- content, markdown
>    ...
>
> Result: "index.page" gets rendered with
"index.template" *and*
> "default.template" (nested).  The docs say that this can happen
and
> recommend using "template: -" to stop it.
Yeah, the default behaviour is rendering the default.template. You  
need to explicitly stop the render pipeline setting a null template.  
This is done with the tilde character, not a dash.
> Attempt 2: Now change "index.template" to stop the template
pipeline:
>    ---
>    template: -
      template: ~
>    --- content, html
>
> Result: No change.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Explained above: don''t use ''-'' but
''~''!
> Also, while attempting to try various things, I ran into some  
> unexpected behavior with "defaultMetaInfo".  I thought that it  
> specified
> the default values, and each page was allowed to override those
> values.  However, it looks like the "defaultMetaInfo" values are
> overriding the meta info in each page.
>
>
>
> config.yaml:
>
>    File/PageHandler
>
>       defaultMetaInfo:
>
>          title: "Default Title"
>
>
>
> src/index.page:
>
>    ---
>
>    title: "Index Page"
>
>    --- content, markdown
>
>    ...
>
>
>
> When I run webgen, all my pages have the title "Default Title". 
If I
> remove the "title" entry from the "defaultMetaInfo",
then all the
> pages
> have their correct titles.  Is this expected?  It doesn''t seem to
> make sense for the top-level "defaults" to *always* override
page-
> specific settings, so I wonder what I''m missing here...
Your not missing anything ;-) It''s a bug, thanks for reporting it. I  
have looked at the devel version - there it works as expected.

Bye,
   Thomas