More festival

[MarkJaroski]

Urban festivals often rely on local bars and small venues to host their concerts. This is a good way for locals to discover smaller venues, and the same goes for projects like this one. We can learn a lot from festivals.

But sometimes these things present their own challenges. For instance just now I've been working on the Premises festival, which concentrates on local artists:

https://www.premices.ch/programme

Looks pretty straight-forward, right? But no. There's no reference to the date anywhere, just "vendredi" and "samedi". The assumption is that human users of the site will convert "vendredi" in their heads to something like "2023-03-17", and we do! But right now there's no regex-replace in goskyr, so it can't do that.

I thought about trying to make two configs with the date as a fixed value. That doesn't work either.

Would you be interested in a code submission to try to address this? If so what do you think is the best approach?

[jakopako]

Very good input! Thanks so much!

So there are a couple of good ideas here. The first one is that it should be possible to have fixed values for a field of type 'date'. I'll make an issue for this.

Regarding the regex replace functionality. Maybe, config-wise, we can do something like this:

- name: field-with-repl
  location:
    selector: p.some-class
  transform:
    - type: regex-replace
      regex: some-regex
      replace: some-string

Maybe later there'll be other transformations (or maybe there is a better term for this?) as well, eg to-lower (to-lower would only need type and not the other two params). The transform param should also be available for date components. So I guess in your example you'd have something like:

- name: date
  type: date
  components:
    - covers: 
        day: true
        month: true
        year: true
      location:
        selector: some-selector
      transform:
        - type: regex-replace
          regex: Vendredi
          replace: 17-3-2023
        - type: regex-replace
          regex: Samedi
          replace: 18-3-2023
      layout: ["2-1-2006"]

I think this would be how I'd attempt to tackle this. What do you think, does this make sense? And yes, I'd be happy to receive a code submission that tackles this :)

[MarkJaroski]

This seems like a good approach to me.

I should probably invest more time into learning GoLang myself, so I won't be opposed to taking a stab at these tasks. The problem there is that I'm in the maximum responsibility phase of my career, so it's hard to break away during the week.

That said, I can usually spin stuff as training if I try hard enough.

[jakopako]

Don't worry! There's no rush in this project. Also I'll gladly tackle this myself if you're fine with this. I'm currently not in a max responsibility phase of my career :D

[MarkJaroski]

Actually, yeah, I'll work on it.

[MarkJaroski]

Amazingly it's already code-complete. I'll do some more testing and send a pull request.