How to add json array into metalsmith-collections?

[surajdalvi]

I have json array with me and i want to add these array into metalsmith-collections. how i do it please help me?

[thiagodemellobueno]

@surajdalvi you may want to look at metalsmith-json

[woodyrew]

@surajdalvi Do you want the json as metadata of a collection or to have collections based on the json?

An example of the json and what you're expecting might be useful.

[virajsoni06]

Hey @woodyrew, I'm facing a similar problem. What I'm trying to do is have a collection based on the json data

I'm fairly new to Metalsmith and I'm not sure where to begin with

I have the following code in my plugins for generating files from json

"plugins": {
"metalsmith-markdown": {
"smartypants": true,
"smartLists": true,
"gfm": true,
"tables": true
},
"metalsmith-permalinks": {},
"metalsmith-json-to-files": {
"source_path": "./json/"
},
"metalsmith-collections": {
"jsonTest": {}
},
"metalsmith-layouts": {
"engine": 'handlebars',
"directory": './templates',
"partials": './templates/partials',
"default": 'index.hbs'
}
}

And my markdown file has the following YAML matter

title: Albums
layout: portfolio.hbs
json_files:
source_file: jsonTest
filename_pattern: portfolio/:data.slug
as_permalink: true
layout: single.hbs
title: data.slug
pageTitle: data.slug
pageTitle2: data.title.rendered
collection: jsonTest

The problem here is, I have a header.hbs partial in which I want to render the title for the single pages as well. But when I run metalsmith, it is not adding any title in the generated file

Thanks.

[woodyrew]

@virajsoni06 Do you have a repository I could look at?

[virajsoni06]

@woodyrew Sorry for the late response, but I figured it out. I added json as metadata into collections

"metalsmith-collections": {
    "posts": {
        "metadata": "./json/blog.json",
        "sortBy":  "date"
    },
},

[woodyrew]

@lambtron This issue can be closed. (Sorry if you're not the correct person to reference). Could the repo be moved to the metalsmith org?