Hey fellow coders,
I try to achieve the following with middleman (after I was unhappy with Jekyll Collections ;-)):
Collect video data in a file per video publisher (e.g. a channel provider).
So there is a) general publisher information and b) a list of items (videos)
The goal in a template would be:
- display general publisher information (all the same for the videos)
- display specific video information
Each video should have it’s own .html file/URL afterwards.
My approach:
data/publisher1.json
{
"publisher":
{
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Civil Engineering RWTH Aachen University",
"description":"Open Educational Resources Initiative by the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the RWTH Aachen University.",
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMg7OPagfjM_eUYsDw3c4-A/videos"
},
"items":[{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"url":"https://youtube.com/watch?v=CKwfCh4xk6A",
"@type": "VideoObject",
"name": "ELVA - The Railway Signalling Lab",
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en",
"description": "Railway safety and operation are two very complex topics. The interaction of safety systems and operation is a major field of education & research at the Institute of Transport Science. For this purpose all generations of interlocking systems are in operation at the railway lab 'ELVA'.",
"thumbnailUrl": "http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/CKwfCh4xk6A/maxresdefault.jpg",
"uploadDate": "2019-09-06",
"learningResourceType": "video"
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8yFPm8Y6cc",
"@type": "VideoObject",
"name": "Dike Breach (long version)",
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en",
"description": "Flood polders are used to improve water retention and thus attenuate flood peaks in the course of small-scale and average flood events. Breach formation processes and its influencing factors are still subject to a number of uncertainties. In that context, physical model tests of dike breaches were performed in the hydraulic laboratory in Aachen to quantify the targeted filling of flood polders.",
"thumbnailUrl": "http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/u8yFPm8Y6cc/maxresdefault.jpg",
"uploadDate": "2019-08-15",
"learningResourceType": "video",
}]
}
Now i want to create subpages and also create a slug with .paramaterize (found via https://cobwwweb.com/dynamic-routing-in-middleman):
config.rb
data.publisher1.items.each do |item|
proxy "/videos/{item.name.parameterize}.html", "/templates/video-detail-page.html",
#vars only for templates?
locals: { current_video: item, publisher:data.publisher1.publisher},
ignore: true
end
Unfortunately this is not working right now, output is:
create public/videos/{item.name.parameterize}.html
identical public/videos/{item.name.parameterize}.html
Source code: https://gitlab.com/programmieraffe/oerhoernchen-simple-metadata-registry-middleman
Is this use-case even supported by data files?
Thanks in advance! Cheers!
