Added the ability to add metadata to collections

lib/index.js

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ var debug = require('debug')('metalsmith-collections');
 var extend = require('extend');
 var Matcher = require('minimatch').Minimatch;
 var unique = require('uniq');
+var read = require('fs').readFileSync;
+var yaml = require('yaml-js');
 
 /**
  * Expose `plugin`.
@@ -90,6 +92,26 @@ function plugin(opts){
       });
     });
 
+    /**
+     * Add collection metadata
+     */
+
+    keys.forEach(function(key){
+      debug('adding metadata: %s', key);
+      var settings = opts[key];
+      var col = metadata[key];
+      var fileName = settings.metadata;
+      if (!fileName) return;
+      if (typeof fileName === 'string') {
+        var data = read(fileName, 'utf-8');
+        var ext = fileName.substr(fileName.lastIndexOf('.') + 1);
+        col.metadata = ext === 'json' ? JSON.parse(data) : yaml.load(data);
+      }
+      else {
+        col.metadata = settings.metadata;
+      }
+    });
+
     /**
      * Add them grouped together to the global metadata.
      */

package.json

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
     "debug": "~0.7.4",
     "extend": "~1.2.1",
     "minimatch": "^0.2.14",
-    "uniq": "0.0.2"
+    "uniq": "0.0.2",
+    "yaml-js": "0.0.7"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "metalsmith": "0.x",

test/fixtures/metadata/metadata.json

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "name": "Batman"
+}

test/fixtures/metadata/metadata.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+name: Batman

test/index.js

@@ -145,4 +145,53 @@ describe('metalsmith-collections', function(){
         done();
       });
   });
+
+  it('should add metadata objects to collections', function (done) {
+    var metalsmith = Metalsmith('test/fixtures/basic');
+    metalsmith
+      .use(collections({
+        articles: {
+          metadata: { name: 'Batman' }
+        }
+      }))
+      .build(function(err){
+        if (err) return done(err);
+        var m = metalsmith.metadata();
+        assert.equal('Batman', m.articles.metadata.name);
+        done();
+      });
+  });
+
+  it('should load collection metadata from a JSON file', function (done) {
+    var metalsmith = Metalsmith('test/fixtures/basic');
+    metalsmith
+      .use(collections({
+        articles: {
+          metadata: 'test/fixtures/metadata/metadata.json'
+        }
+      }))
+      .build(function(err){
+        if (err) return done(err);
+        var m = metalsmith.metadata();
+        assert.equal('Batman', m.articles.metadata.name);
+        done();
+      });
+  });
+
+  it('should load collection metadata from a YAML file', function (done) {
+    var metalsmith = Metalsmith('test/fixtures/basic');
+    metalsmith
+      .use(collections({
+        articles: {
+          metadata: 'test/fixtures/metadata/metadata.yaml'
+        }
+      }))
+      .build(function(err){
+        if (err) return done(err);
+        var m = metalsmith.metadata();
+        assert.equal('Batman', m.articles.metadata.name);
+        done();
+      });
+  });
+
 });