Need a way to flatten the output of "with-plugin"

[LaurentGoderre]

Right now, it preserves the structure of the templates which is not necessarily the desired behavior.

Any idea how we would tackle that?

[ain]

I used assemble-contrib-permalinks for it, works nicely on 2 projects already.

[jonschlinkert]

have you tried the files array format? if that doesn't work, the permalinks plugin would be my suggestion as well. I don't think this complexity belongs in the i18n plugin

[LaurentGoderre]

Files array shouldn't work because it's a custom array

[doowb]

It is flattened, isn't it?

[LaurentGoderre]

No, it preserves the path of the template

[jonschlinkert]

Good point, I forgot about that

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[LaurentGoderre]

BTW, permalinks does not solve this issue. It adds the path to the template before the permalink

[jonschlinkert]

permalinks does not solve this issue. It adds the path to the template before the permalink

It does though, because the dest can be anything you want it to be:

assemble: {
  foo: {
    options: {
      permalinks: {
        structure: 'dist/:foo/:bar/:index:ext'
      }
    },
    files: {
      './': ['templates/*.hbs']
    }
  }
}

meaning that if the dest is "nothing", then permalinks constructs the entire dest path.

[LaurentGoderre]

This is what I have:

assemble:{
  theme: {
    options: {
      plugins: ['assemble-contrib-i18n'],
      i18n: {
        languages: ["en", "fr"],
        templates: ['site/pages/theme/*.hbs']
      }
    },
    dest:  "dist/unmin/theme/",
    src: "!*.*"
  }
}

The output of this is dist/unmin/theme/site/pages/theme/index-en.html

[jonschlinkert]

It should be something like:

assemble:{
  theme: {
    options: {
      plugins: ['assemble-contrib-i18n', 'assemble-contrib-permalinks'],
      i18n: {
        languages: ["en", "fr"],
        templates: ['site/pages/theme/*.hbs']
      },
      permalinks: {
        structure: 'dist/unmin/theme/:whatever/:props/:index:ext'
      }
    },
    files: {'./': ['!*.*']}
  }
}

The structure will build the dest how ever you want it.

[jonschlinkert]

the reason the permalinks plugin is advantageous for this kind of situation, is if you had multiple plugins that each attempted to modify the dest somehow you would run into problems quickly. but the permalinks plugin allows you to construct virtually any kind of dest path you can think of, and it will work with other plugins.

[doowb]

This is what I'm confused about... this example in the Gruntfile.js is the same thing... also flatten: true is in the assemble.options so that might be the reason that it's working in this example. You can see the results in the test/actual/with-plugin/ folder

[LaurentGoderre]

You're right...though @jonschlinkert example worked....I'm curious now...

[LaurentGoderre]

Damn I'm dumb....I forgot the flatten parameter. Sorry about that guys :S

[jonschlinkert]

lol no worries. this flexibility is a double-edged sword. I think our new docs will really help! we're working night and day to get them done!