Site content is not updated

[zenzjtech]

你好，
Site content is not updated after bm/config-vars, bm/init, and bm/preview, but can only be updated after bm/config-vars, restart Emacs, bm/init, and bm/preview.

Is this a nomal behavior of blog-minimal?
谢谢

[thiefuniverse]

Hello, do you eval-buffer with your blog-minimal-vars.el ? Oh, maybe I can add it before executing blog-minimal-init.

[zenzjtech]

Hello,
I try eval-buffer my 'bog-minimal-vars.el`, but still no effect :(.

[thiefuniverse]

Thank you, it's really a bug. I haven't updated vars when generate index.html. Now it's fixed. You can download new three *.el to change your origin files. I changed blog-minimal-preview-blog function.
Thank you again.

[thiefuniverse]

I think I have fixed it passing my test. Hope you can test it.

[zenzjtech]

Hi,
I've replaced old folder by new folder, but still have to restart Emacs for the change to take effects.

[thiefuniverse]

I test it like this. It works. Really sometimes it can't refresh and you can try press F5 to refresh these static htmls.( I think maybe browser recognizes static htmls and just load them with cache buffer).

[zenzjtech]

Hmm, I check the content of index.html every time after executing blog-minimal-init, but its content is constant until I restarted emacs and executing bm-init again.

[thiefuniverse]

You can try to eval

   (blog-minimal-render-main-index)

at *scratch* buffer , and then see there is a line 'wrote **** index.html' sentance at *message* buffer.

This function should be like this, you can examine whether it's same with mine or not.

(defun blog-minimal-render-main-index ()
  "Render main index for blog minimal."
  (blog-minimal-update-vars)  ;;; this function will update your configuration vars
  (ht-remove blog-minimal-header-vars "high-dir")
  (blog-minimal-update-index-vars t)

  (let ((main-vars
	  (ht-merge blog-minimal-header-vars blog-minimal-person-zone-vars blog-minimal-nav-vars blog-minimal-blog-index-vars blog-minimal-footer-vars)))
      (blog-minimal-string-to-file (mustache-render
		   "{{> main-index}}"
		   main-vars)
		      (concat blog-minimal-blog-main-dir "index.html"))))

When you want to add new post, you can use

(blog-minimal-render-current-article)
(blog-minimal-render-all-org-files)

update index you can use this (actually it's invoked in function blog-minimal-preview-blog)

   (blog-minimal-render-main-index)

I think blog-minimal-init is a function for your init configuration, then you don't need to invoke it.

[zenzjtech]

Hi Thief,
I tried your latest suggestion several times, but still doesn't work. It is really a weird phenomenon,
since I witness the line wrote **** index.html already, and did also try eval-buffer the bm-vars.

[thiefuniverse]

Hello,
I think you can examine index.html in your blog-main-dir is whether changed or not.
And what's your definition of function blog-minimal-render-main-index ? (You can press C-h f, and then find this function's location) It's same with my previous code? Maybe you can try to use latest version or press F5 to refresh pages. I am also confused.

[zenzjtech]

After pulling the newest code, I tried your suggestion, the result is that index.html isn't updated at all.
I found this works: in blog-minimal-vars.el, Instead of updating the value at the default position, I change variables directly within defun blog-minimal-update-vars() as you can see in the following paragraph of code, then eval-buffer and finally preview.

  "Update all vars for template."
  (eval-buffer)
  (setq blog-minimal-header-vars
        (ht
   ;;; for header
         ("page-title" blog-minimal-page-title)
         ("author" blog-minimal-author)
         ("description" blog-minimal-description)
         ("keywords" blog-minimal-blog-keywords)))

  (setq blog-minimal-person-zone-vars
        (ht
   ;;; for person-zone
         ("blog-name" "nononame00.el")  =>>>>>>>>> HERE
         ("master-name" blog-minimal-master-name)
         ("avatar" blog-minimal-avatar-path)    ; for avatar
         ("one-cool-sentence" blog-minimal-one-cool-sentence)))
....

[thiefuniverse]

You can see that I invoke blog-minimal-render-main-index , and invoke (blog-minimal-update-vars) in blog-minimal-render-main-index.

(defun blog-minimal-preview-blog ()
  "Preivew blog minimal."
  (interactive)
  (blog-minimal-render-main-index) ;;; here
  (httpd-serve-directory blog-minimal-blog-main-dir)
  (browse-url (format "http://%s:%d" "127.0.0.1" httpd-port)))

(defun blog-minimal-render-main-index ()
  "Render main index for blog minimal."
  (blog-minimal-update-vars) ;;; here
  (ht-remove blog-minimal-header-vars "high-dir")
  (blog-minimal-update-index-vars t)

So when its vars are changed, you invoke preview-blog which has updated vars.

[zenzjtech]

Yep, I can see the logic flow. I try debugging stacktrace by edebug already.
What I would like to say in the previous post is that (blog-minimal-update-vars) is not working as expected. As I understand, the function need to record the change of vars made by user, but actually it didnot fulfil that. It is until I change the values of vars directly inside that function that index.html would work normally as expected.