hugo/content/en/methods/resource/Key.md
Bjørn Erik Pedersen 9b0050e9aa Squashed 'docs/' content from commit 5c085a37b
git-subtree-dir: docs
git-subtree-split: 5c085a37b297bf12f59efeaae591418ec025c10d
2024-01-27 10:48:33 +01:00

45 lines
1.5 KiB
Markdown

---
title: Key
description: Returns the unique key for the given resource, equivalent to its publishing path.
categories: []
keywords: []
action:
related:
- methods/resource/Permalink
- methods/resource/RelPermalink
- methods/resource/Publish
returnType: string
signatures: [RESOURCE.Key]
---
By way of example, consider this site configuration:
{{< code-toggle file=hugo >}}
baseURL = 'https://example.org/docs/'
{{< /code-toggle >}}
And this template:
```go-html-template
{{ with resources.Get "images/a.jpg" }}
{{ with resources.Copy "foo/bar/b.jpg" . }}
{{ .Key }} → foo/bar/b.jpg
{{ .Name }} → images/a.jpg
{{ .Title }} → images/a.jpg
{{ .RelPermalink }} → /docs/foo/bar/b.jpg
{{ end }}
{{ end }}
```
We used the [`resources.Copy`] function to change the publishing path. The `Key` method returns the updated path, but note that it is different than the value returned by [`RelPermalink`]. The `RelPermalink` value includes the subdirectory segment of the `baseURL` in the site configuration.
The `Key` method is useful if you need to get the resource's publishing path without publishing the resource. Unlike the `Permalink`, `RelPermalink`, or `Publish` methods, calling `Key` will not publish the resource.
{{% include "methods/resource/_common/global-page-remote-resources.md" %}}
[`Permalink`]: /methods/resource/permalink
[`RelPermalink`]: /methods/resource/relpermalink
[`resources.Copy`]: /functions/resources/copy