clear section list

README.md

@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ gemtext. Executed from the hugo directory:
 hugoext -ext gmi -pipe md2gmi
 ```
 
-
 It abides the hugo section config in `[permalinks]` but only uses the content subdirectory to
 determine the section. An example section config in hugo looks like this:
 
@@ -69,11 +68,12 @@ files. Here an example for a Gemlog using [gmifs](https://github.com/n0x1m/gmifs
 
 ```makefile
 serve:
-    hugoext -ext gmi -pipe md2gmi -serve="gmifs -autoindex"
+    hugoext -ext gmi -pipe md2gmi
+    gmifs -autoindex
 ```
 
-hugoext pipes the input through the `md2gmi` extension and spawns `gmifs` to serve the local gemini
-directory with auto indexing enabled.
+hugoext pipes the input through the `md2gmi` extension and writes the output file tree. We then
+spawn `gmifs` to serve it on `gemini://localhost` with auto indexing enabled.
 
 ### Production
 

main.go

@@ -180,15 +180,11 @@ func main() {
 	section, ok := sections[seconOnRoot]
 	if ok {
 		sectionFile := filepath.Join(destination, "index."+ext)
+		// TODO: come up with sth better as one might have content there.
+		os.Remove(sectionFile)
 		section.Write(sectionFile)
 		fmt.Printf("written section listing for root to %s\n", section.File)
 	}
-
-	// TODO
-	// in watch mode, compare timestamps of files before replacement, keep index?
-	// check/replace links
-	// write rss?
-	// write listings from template?
 }
 
 func pipe(cmd string, input io.Reader) []byte {

section_list.go

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"sort"
+	"time"
+)
+
+type Section struct {
+	List []SectionEntry
+	File string
+}
+
+type SectionEntry struct {
+	Link    string
+	Title   string
+	Date    time.Time
+	Summary string
+}
+
+func (section *Section) Write(file string) error {
+	// sort section list
+	sort.Slice(section.List, func(i, j int) bool {
+		return section.List[i].Date.Before(section.List[j].Date)
+	})
+
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	for _, file := range section.List {
+		// TODO: this could be a template
+		entry := "\n"
+		entry += fmt.Sprintf("=> %s %s\n", file.Link, file.Title)
+		entry += fmt.Sprintf("%v - %s\n", file.Date.Format("2006-01-02"), file.Summary)
+
+		buf.Write([]byte(entry))
+	}
+
+	f, err := os.OpenFile(file, os.O_APPEND|os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY, 0644)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	_, err = f.Write(buf.Bytes())
+	f.Close()
+	return err
+}