Include properties file and make them document attributes

This idea is closely related to the following issue:

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/566

This can be accomplished today using a preprocessor. The preprocessor would read the file, convert the values to a map, assign those values to the document object and return the reader (or null) to proceed.

Could be a good extension for the extension lab.

See https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-extensions-lab/blob/master/lib/front-matter-preprocessor/extension.rb for an example of a similar extension. (The main difference is that this preprocessor would never touch the reader since it is getting information from a separate file).

-Dan

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 6:59 AM, eshepelyuk [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Is it possible to include properties file, i.e. comprised of name / value pairs and after include turn those kye/value pairs into document attributes ?

Let's assume we have my.properties file with

prop1=value1

So, after include I'd like my document to have attribute prop1 set to value1, like I used following

:prop1: value1

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eshepelyuk wrote:

My main concern  - will such extension be working on GitHub ?

No, it won't. But until GitHub changes their position, the processor can't read secondary files anyway. Not even a change to core would allow the idea to work on GitHub. GitHub only allows the processor to convert an input string with no file access.

-Dan

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