This more or less completes the simplification of the template handling code in Hugo started in v0.62.
The main motivation was to fix a long lasting issue about a crash in HTML content files without front matter.
But this commit also comes with a big functional improvement.
As we now have moved the base template evaluation to the build stage we now use the same lookup rules for `baseof` as for `list` etc. type of templates.
This means that in this simple example you can have a `baseof` template for the `blog` section without having to duplicate the others:
```
layouts
├── _default
│ ├── baseof.html
│ ├── list.html
│ └── single.html
└── blog
└── baseof.html
```
Also, when simplifying code, you often get rid of some double work, as shown in the "site building" benchmarks below.
These benchmarks looks suspiciously good, but I have repeated the below with ca. the same result. Compared to master:
```
name old time/op new time/op delta
SiteNew/Bundle_with_image-16 13.1ms ± 1% 10.5ms ± 1% -19.34% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Bundle_with_JSON_file-16 13.0ms ± 0% 10.7ms ± 1% -18.05% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Tags_and_categories-16 46.4ms ± 2% 43.1ms ± 1% -7.15% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Canonify_URLs-16 52.2ms ± 2% 47.8ms ± 1% -8.30% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Deep_content_tree-16 77.9ms ± 1% 70.9ms ± 1% -9.01% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Many_HTML_templates-16 43.0ms ± 0% 37.2ms ± 1% -13.54% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Page_collections-16 58.2ms ± 1% 52.4ms ± 1% -9.95% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
SiteNew/Bundle_with_image-16 3.81MB ± 0% 2.22MB ± 0% -41.70% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Bundle_with_JSON_file-16 3.60MB ± 0% 2.01MB ± 0% -44.20% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Tags_and_categories-16 19.3MB ± 1% 14.1MB ± 0% -26.91% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Canonify_URLs-16 70.7MB ± 0% 69.0MB ± 0% -2.40% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Deep_content_tree-16 37.1MB ± 0% 31.2MB ± 0% -15.94% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Many_HTML_templates-16 17.6MB ± 0% 10.6MB ± 0% -39.92% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Page_collections-16 25.9MB ± 0% 21.2MB ± 0% -17.99% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
SiteNew/Bundle_with_image-16 52.3k ± 0% 26.1k ± 0% -50.18% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Bundle_with_JSON_file-16 52.3k ± 0% 26.1k ± 0% -50.16% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Tags_and_categories-16 336k ± 1% 269k ± 0% -19.90% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Canonify_URLs-16 422k ± 0% 395k ± 0% -6.43% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Deep_content_tree-16 401k ± 0% 313k ± 0% -21.79% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Many_HTML_templates-16 247k ± 0% 143k ± 0% -42.17% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SiteNew/Page_collections-16 282k ± 0% 207k ± 0% -26.55% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
```
Fixes#6716Fixes#6760Fixes#6768Fixes#6778
This commit also
* revises the change detection for templates used by content files in server mode.
* Adds a Page.RenderString method
Fixes#6545Fixes#4663Closes#6043
This is a big commit, but it deletes lots of code and simplifies a lot.
* Resolving the template funcs at execution time means we don't have to create template clones per site
* Having a custom map resolver means that we can remove the AST lower case transformation for the special lower case Params map
Not only is the above easier to reason about, it's also faster, especially if you have more than one language, as in the benchmark below:
```
name old time/op new time/op delta
SiteNew/Deep_content_tree-16 53.7ms ± 0% 48.1ms ± 2% -10.38% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
SiteNew/Deep_content_tree-16 41.0MB ± 0% 36.8MB ± 0% -10.26% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
SiteNew/Deep_content_tree-16 481k ± 0% 410k ± 0% -14.66% (p=0.029 n=4+4)
```
This should be even better if you also have lots of templates.
Closes#6594
This commit adds support for return values in partials.
This means that you can now do this and similar:
{{ $v := add . 42 }}
{{ return $v }}
Partials without a `return` statement will be rendered as before.
This works for both `partial` and `partialCached`.
Fixes#5783
The main motivation of this commit is to add a `page.Page` interface to replace the very file-oriented `hugolib.Page` struct.
This is all a preparation step for issue #5074, "pages from other data sources".
But this also fixes a set of annoying limitations, especially related to custom output formats, and shortcodes.
Most notable changes:
* The inner content of shortcodes using the `{{%` as the outer-most delimiter will now be sent to the content renderer, e.g. Blackfriday.
This means that any markdown will partake in the global ToC and footnote context etc.
* The Custom Output formats are now "fully virtualized". This removes many of the current limitations.
* The taxonomy list type now has a reference to the `Page` object.
This improves the taxonomy template `.Title` situation and make common template constructs much simpler.
See #5074Fixes#5763Fixes#5758Fixes#5090Fixes#5204Fixes#4695Fixes#5607Fixes#5707Fixes#5719Fixes#3113Fixes#5706Fixes#5767Fixes#5723Fixes#5769Fixes#5770Fixes#5771Fixes#5759Fixes#5776Fixes#5777Fixes#5778
Before this commit, due to a bug in Go's `text/template` package, this would print different output for typed nil interface values:
```
{{ if .AuthenticatedUser }}User is authenticated!{{ else }}{{ end }}
{{ if not .AuthenticatedUser }}{{ else }}}User is authenticated!{{ end }}
```
This commit works around this by wrapping every `if` and `with` with a custom `getif` template func with truth logic that matches `not`, `and` and `or`.
Those 3 template funcs from Go's stdlib are now pulled into Hugo's source tree and adjusted to support custom zero values, e.g. types that implement `IsZero`.
This means that you can now do:
```
{{ with .Date }}{{ . }}{{ end }}
```
And it would work as expected.
Fixes#5738
All `.Params` are stored lowercase, but it should work to access them `.Page.camelCase` etc. There was, however, some holes in the logic with the old transformer.
This commit fixes that by applying a blacklist instead of the old whitelist logic. `.Param` is a very distinct key. The original case will be kept in `.Data.Params.myParam`, but other than that it will be lowercased.
Fixes#5068
Before this commit, Hugo used `html/template` for all Go templates.
While this is a fine choice for HTML and maybe also RSS feeds, it is painful for plain text formats such as CSV, JSON etc.
This commit fixes that by using the `IsPlainText` attribute on the output format to decide what to use.
A couple of notes:
* The above requires a nonambiguous template name to type mapping. I.e. `/layouts/_default/list.json` will only work if there is only one JSON output format, `/layouts/_default/list.mytype.json` will always work.
* Ambiguous types will fall back to HTML.
* Partials inherits the text vs HTML identificator of the container template. This also means that plain text templates can only include plain text partials.
* Shortcode templates are, by definition, currently HTML templates only.
Fixes#3221
Before this commit, Hugo used `html/template` for all Go templates.
While this is a fine choice for HTML and maybe also RSS feeds, it is painful for plain text formats such as CSV, JSON etc.
This commit fixes that by using the `IsPlainText` attribute on the output format to decide what to use.
A couple of notes:
* The above requires a nonambiguous template name to type mapping. I.e. `/layouts/_default/list.json` will only work if there is only one JSON output format, `/layouts/_default/list.mytype.json` will always work.
* Ambiguous types will fall back to HTML.
* Partials inherits the text vs HTML identificator of the container template. This also means that plain text templates can only include plain text partials.
* Shortcode templates are, by definition, currently HTML templates only.
Fixes#3221
