front

extracts frontmatter from text files with ease.

Features

• Custom delimiters. You are free to register any delimiter of your choice. Provided its a three character string. e.g +++, $$$, ---, %%%
• Custom Handlers. Anything that implements HandlerFunc can be used to decode the values from the frontmatter text, you can see the JSONHandler for how to implement one.
• Support YAML frontmatter
• Support JSON frontmatter.

Installation

go get github.com/gernest/front

How to use

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"

	"github.com/gernest/front"
)

var txt = `+++
{
    "title":"front"
}
+++

# Body
Over my dead body
`

func main() {
	m := front.NewMatter()
	m.Handle("+++", front.JSONHandler)
	f, body, err := m.Parse(strings.NewReader(txt))
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	fmt.Printf("The front matter is:\n%#v\n", f)
	fmt.Printf("The body is:\n%q\n", body)
}

Please see the tests formore details

Licence

This project is under the MIT Licence. See the LICENCE file for the full license text.