Add keys to collection of each content_type

[flxsource]

Currently, each content_type is placed in an collection, but without any keys. Would it be possible to get the collection indexed by entry title, so that we can cherry pick a particular entry?

[dlitvakb]

Hey @flxsource,

Sadly, entry title is something one can't rely on as it's dependant on the Content Type structure.

But if you want to cherry-pick an entry you can do it like follows:

{% for entry in site.data.contentful.spaces.my_space.entry %}
  # By sys.id
  {% if entry.sys.id == 'MY_ENTRY_ID' %}
    # Do something...
  {% endif %}

  # By a property
  {% if entry.title == 'some fancy title' %}
    # Do something...
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

All entries provide a key for it's ID accessed with object.sys.id and you can easily filter by it, or you can filter by any property you want by directly accessing it.

Hope this helps

[flxsource]

I was hoping to avoid looping all of them, but it will certainly work.

Many thanks

[dlitvakb]

Sadly that's a limitation of the Liquid templating language, something like array.find { |object| object.sys.id == 'foo' } would have solved it.

Glad it helped! 👍

[flxsource]

I've found another workaround for this issue, as long as the data structure you have in contentful supports it. I've built a proof of concept (that's also sufficient for my use case), and if you think it's worth while I'll do some more work to put it behind a config option and add some error handling.

See #11