Liquid filter collection where not null

Question

In my front matter for some pages (not all) I have:

---
top-navigation:
    order: 2
---

Using liquid I want to filter all site pages which have a top-navigation object and sort by top-navigation.order.

I'm trying sort:'top-navigation.order' but that's throwing an exception of undefined method [] for nil:NilClass. I tried where:"top-navigation", true but it's not equating truthy values.

How can I filter for pages that have top-navigation and then sort?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 09 '17 at 12:20

6

Two steps:

Create an array with pages that contains the top-navigation key.

We create an empty array and then push the items that have the key.

{% assign navposts = ''|split:''%}
{% for post in site.posts %}
{% if post.top-navigation %}
{% assign navposts = navposts|push:post%}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}

Sort the above array by top-navigation.order

{% assign navposts = navposts|sort: "top-navigation.order"%}

Printing results:

{% for post in navposts %}
<br>{{ post.title }} - {{post.top-navigation}}
{% endfor %}

For pages use site.pages.

answered Aug 09 '17 at 12:20

marcanuy

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this works very well. I even added a uniq filter on it for my tag list. – Edward Nov 27 '17 at 21:55
ended up here after reading the jekyll filter list. There's a "where: nil" filter , available starting from v4.0.0 ([docs](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/liquid/filters/#detecting-nil-values-with-where-filter400)). Wasn't sure how to get the converse filter. This answer seems more portable anyway. – init_js Jun 20 '19 at 21:43

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 01 '21 at 16:12

In Jekyll 3.2.0+ (and Github Pages) you can use the where_exp filter like so:

{% assign posts_with_nav = site.posts | where_exp: "post", "post.top-navigation" %}

Here, for each item in site.posts, we bind it to the 'post' variable and then evaluate the expression 'post.top-navigation'. If it evaluates truthy, then it will be selected.

Then, putting it together with the sorting, you'd have this:

{%
  assign sorted_posts_with_nav = site.posts 
  | where_exp: "post", "post.top-navigation" 
  | sort: "top-navigation.order"
%}

Liquid also has the where filter which, when you don't give it a target value, selects all elements with a truthy value for that property:

{% assign posts_with_nav = site.posts | where: "top-navigation" %}

Unfortunately, this variant does not work with Jekyll.

Liquid filter collection where not null

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