Set content along with excerpt when rendering posts (#41)

* save content along with excerpt when preparing posts

* add a test

site/site.go

@@ -164,10 +164,7 @@ func (site *site) loadTemplates() error {
 				// the rest are pages.
 				if templ.IsPost() {
 
-					// NOTE: getting the excerpt if not set at the front matter requires rendering the template
-					// which could be too onerous for this stage. Consider postponing setting this and/or caching the
-					// template render result
-					templ.Metadata["excerpt"] = getExcerpt(templ)
+					templ.Metadata["content"], templ.Metadata["excerpt"] = getPreviewContent(templ)
 					site.posts = append(site.posts, templ.Metadata)
 
 					// also add to tags index
@@ -414,24 +411,26 @@ func writeToFile(targetPath string, source io.Reader) error {
 	return targetFile.Sync()
 }
 
-// Assuming the given template is a post, try to generating an excerpt of it.
-// If it contains an `excerpt` key in its metadata use that, otherwise try
-// to render it as HTML and extract the text of its first <p>
-func getExcerpt(templ *markup.Template) string {
-	if excerpt, ok := templ.Metadata["excerpt"]; ok {
-		return excerpt.(string)
-	}
-
+// Assuming the given template is a post, try to generating a preview version of its context
+// and an excerpt of it. If the metadata contains an `excerpt` key use that, use the first <p>
+// from the context preview.
+func getPreviewContent(templ *markup.Template) (string, string) {
 	// if we don't expect this to render to html don't bother parsing it
 	if templ.TargetExt() != ".html" {
-		return ""
+		return "", ""
 	}
 
 	content, err := templ.Render()
 	if err != nil {
-		return ""
+		return "", ""
 	}
-	return markup.ExtractFirstParagraph(bytes.NewReader(content))
+
+	if excerpt, ok := templ.Metadata["excerpt"]; ok {
+		return string(content), excerpt.(string)
+	}
+
+	excerpt := markup.ExtractFirstParagraph(bytes.NewReader(content))
+	return string(content), excerpt
 }
 
 // if live reload is enabled, inject the reload snippet to html files

site/site_test.go

@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ date: 2024-01-01
 tags: [web, software]
 ---
 <p>the intro paragraph</p>
-<p> and another paragraph>`
+<p> and another paragraph</p>`
 	file := newFile(config.SrcDir, "hello.html", content)
 	defer os.Remove(file.Name())
 
@@ -430,6 +430,55 @@ hello world! - the intro paragraph
 an oldie! -`)
 }
 
+func TestRenderPreviewContent(t *testing.T) {
+	config := newProject()
+	defer os.RemoveAll(config.RootDir)
+
+	content := `---
+title: hello world!
+date: 2024-01-01
+tags: [web, software]
+---
+<p>the intro paragraph</p>
+<p> and another paragraph</p>`
+	file := newFile(config.SrcDir, "hello.html", content)
+	defer os.Remove(file.Name())
+
+	content = `---
+title: goodbye!
+date: 2024-02-01
+tags: [web]
+excerpt: an overridden excerpt
+---
+<p>goodbye world!</p>
+<p> and another paragraph</p>`
+	file = newFile(config.SrcDir, "goodbye.html", content)
+	defer os.Remove(file.Name())
+
+	// add a page (no date)
+	content = `---
+---
+{% for post in site.posts %}
+<h1>{{post.title}}</h1>
+{{post.content}}
+{% endfor %}
+`
+
+	file = newFile(config.SrcDir, "about.html", content)
+	defer os.Remove(file.Name())
+
+	site, _ := load(*config)
+	output, err := site.render(site.templates[file.Name()])
+	assertEqual(t, err, nil)
+	assertEqual(t, strings.TrimSpace(string(output)), `<h1>goodbye!</h1>
+<p>goodbye world!</p>
+<p> and another paragraph</p>
+
+<h1>hello world!</h1>
+<p>the intro paragraph</p>
+<p> and another paragraph</p>`)
+}
+
 func TestRenderDataFile(t *testing.T) {
 	config := newProject()
 	defer os.RemoveAll(config.RootDir)