flat-pages: Add index metadata flag for pretty URLs.

4 files changed, 38 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/doc/haunt.texi b/doc/haunt.texi
index acc7257..0ac016f 100644
--- a/doc/haunt.texi
+++ b/doc/haunt.texi
@@ -908,6 +908,26 @@ of demonstrating Haunt's flat page functionality.  I live here in this
 manual with my two cats: Bob and Carol.
 @end example
 
+If the above text were saved to @file{about.md} in the flat pages
+directory, the resulting HTML page would be @file{about.html}.
+
+For ``pretty'' URLS (@file{/about} rather than @file{/about.html}),
+the special metadata item @code{index: true} can be specified in the
+page header:
+
+@example
+title: About me
+index: true
+---
+
+# About me
+
+...
+@end example
+
+With the @code{index} metadata flag, Haunt will generate
+@file{about/index.html} rather than @file{about.html}.
+
 The content of each flat page is inserted into a complete HTML
 document by the @var{template} procedure.  This procedure takes three
 arguments:
diff --git a/example/haunt.scm b/example/haunt.scm
index 2527c89..bcb58fd 100644
--- a/example/haunt.scm
+++ b/example/haunt.scm
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
              (haunt builder blog)
              (haunt builder atom)
              (haunt builder assets)
+             (haunt builder flat-pages)
              (haunt builder rss)
              (haunt publisher rsync)
              (haunt publisher sourcehut)
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@
                        (atom-feed)
                        (atom-feeds-by-tag)
                        (rss-feed)
+                       (flat-pages)
                        (static-directory "images"))
       #:publishers (list (rsync-publisher #:name 'rsync
                                           #:destination "/tmp/haunt-example")
diff --git a/example/pages/about.md b/example/pages/about.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d841fa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/pages/about.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+title: About
+index: true
+---
+Scheme is a cool programming language.
+
+Guile is a cool Scheme implementation.
+
+Haunt is a cool static site generator written in Guile.
+
+Enough said.
diff --git a/haunt/builder/flat-pages.scm b/haunt/builder/flat-pages.scm
index edf778a..d0594ca 100644
--- a/haunt/builder/flat-pages.scm
+++ b/haunt/builder/flat-pages.scm
@@ -80,12 +80,15 @@ complete HTML page that presumably wraps the page body."
              (#f (error "no reader available for page" file-name))
              (reader
               (let-values (((metadata body) (reader-read reader file-name)))
-                (let* ((dir (substring (dirname file-name)
+                (let* ((title (or (assq-ref metadata 'title) "Untitled"))
+                       (index? (equal? (assq-ref metadata 'index) "true"))
+                       (dir (substring (dirname file-name)
                                        (string-length directory)))
                        (out (string-append prefix dir
                                            (if (string-null? dir) "" "/")
-                                           (strip-extension file-name) ".html"))
-                       (title (or (assq-ref metadata 'title) "Untitled")))
+                                           (strip-extension file-name)
+                                           (if index? "/index" "")
+                                           ".html")))
                   (serialized-artifact out (template site title body)
                                        sxml->html))))))
          src-files)))