Combining permalinks with a data collection - how?

[tomsoderlund]

I have a JSON file landingpages.json that currently spits out HTML files in the format dist/[pageName].html and now I'm trying to use this middleware to produce dist/[pageName]/index.html, but can't get it to work:

landingpages: {
    options: {
        flatten: true,
        assets: '<%= config.dist %>',
        engine: 'handlebars',
        layoutdir: '<%= config.src %>/templates/layouts',
        layout: 'landingpage.hbs',
        partials: '<%= config.src %>/templates/partials/*.hbs',
        helpers: ['<%= config.src %>/helpers/*.js'],
        data: '<%= config.src %>/data/*.{json,yml}',
        pages: grunt.file.readJSON('src/data/landingpages.json'),
        permalinks: {
            structure: ':basename/:index.html'
        }
    },
    files: { '<%= config.dist %>/': ['<%= config.src %>/templates/pages/index.hbs'] }
},

Any suggestions?

[designorant]

Looks like it's a formatting issue rather than anything to do with your data files.

You've got an extra colon in there. Try:

permalinks: {
    structure: ':basename/index.html'
}

[tomsoderlund]

Thanks for spotting, but yields same results (= pages are created in dist/[pageName].html format). I think there's perhaps something with my files: setting?

files: { '<%= config.dist %>/': ['<%= config.src %>/templates/pages/index.hbs'] }

[jonschlinkert]

hmm, it's possible that the pages generated via the pages property are causing issues. Have you tried with and without pages to see if permalinks works without it?

[jonschlinkert]

and thank you @designorant!