Feature: Iterate over json array with objects

[thomasmodeneis]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is a feature Hugo does not support, or if I'm doing it wrong. I can't find another way to ask this so I had to open this ticket.

hellohugo.md -->

{
    "title": "Test iterate over array of objects",
    "date": "2014-12-26T21:49:12Z",
    "author": "test",
    "listOfStuff": [
        {
            "test" : "test",
            "anothertest":"anothertest"
        },
        {
            "test" : "test",
            "anothertest":"anothertest"
        },
        {
            "test" : "test",
            "anothertest":"anothertest"
        },
        {
            "nick" : "test",
            "anothertest":"anothertest"
        }
    ]
}
## test

With this HTML it only prints me the key but I can't manage to get inside the json object:

                            <div class="tags">
                                {{ range $key, $value := .Params.listOfStuff }}
                                    <span  class="tag"><a href="{{ $key}}"> {{ $key }} </a> {{ $value}} </span>
                                {{ end }}
                            </div>

output:

<div class="tags">

                                    <span class="tag"><a href="0"> 0 </a>  </span>

                                    <span class="tag"><a href="1"> 1 </a>  </span>

                                    <span class="tag"><a href="2"> 2 </a>  </span>

                                    <span class="tag"><a href="3"> 3 </a>  </span>

                            </div>

If I try to get deeper into the object with {{ $value.test }}

                            <div class="tags">
                                {{ range $key, $value := .Params.listOfStuff }}
                                    <span  class="tag"><a href="{{ $key}}"> {{ $key }} </a> {{ $value.test }} </span>
                                {{ end }}
                            </div>

Then Hugo throws:

ERROR: 2014/12/30 Error while rendering page test/test1.md: template: test/single.html:79:101: executing "test/single.html" at <$value.test>: can't evaluate field test in type string

events.js:72
        throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
              ^
Error: Command failed: 
    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:637:15)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (child_process.js:956:11)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:117:20)
    at Pipe.close (net.js:465:12)

[bep]

What you try to do isn't supported by Hugo.

Once #748 gets into play, you can do similar things.

In general, http://discuss.gohugo.io/ is a better place for questions.

[thomasmodeneis]

Thanks bjornerik.
That was really helpful!

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