.GetTerms returns empty set for pages with _build: render: never in 0.123

[TiGR]

Say, you have some pages with this code:

_build:
  list: local
  render: never

That is, you don't need separate files for these files, but you render these pages elsewhere. However, when you get that page, you get weird results. First up, .GetTerms "tags" for example returns empty set.

Example site. In hugo 0.122 this site shows the following:

WARN  Test Page file tags:
WARN  -- Tag One (Test Page)

In hugo 0.123:

WARN  Test Page file tags:

So, it can't list tags. Also, in some a bit more complex environment (can't yet reproduce in simple site), when I dump subpage from a variable I get not Page(/path/to/page), but Page(nil) for pages having _build: render: never.

[jmooring]

I'm not sure about this; it's a complex question involving many use cases. For discussion...

Build options: when should a page's terms contribute to a taxonomy object?

		RENDER
		always	link	never
LIST	always	✔️	?	?
	local	✔️	?	?
	never	✔️	❌	❌

The cells that I've filled in are, to me, obvious choices.

If we were starting from scratch, I'd say do this:

		RENDER
		always	link	never
LIST	always	✔️	❌	❌
	local	✔️	❌	❌
	never	✔️	❌	❌

The behavior with v0.123.0 is different than v0.122.0, but I think it might be better. For example, v0.123.0 fixed #10694 which (obviously) leaked information.

[TiGR]

I think that there should be an option to make it work as I describe it: that is, no separate pages are generated, but you can work with these pages, use tags, etc. In our case, we have lists of updates (which usually are just a sentence, and there is no need to make it into a page, but we list them on some pages, and we need them as separate instances, so that we could do various lists, depending on some sort of filters). So, we need an ability to render it, but not in separate pages (as it would create about a one hundred thousand unneeded pages).

[jmooring]

Rethinking my "if we we'e starting from scratch" scenario, I think it should look like this instead:

		RENDER
		always	link	never
LIST	always	✔️	✔️	❌
	local	✔️	✔️	❌
	never	✔️	✔️	❌

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EDIT: And that's how it works in v0.123.0, so I think we got it right. The behavior in v0.122.0 is below, which was not great:

		RENDER
		always	link	never
LIST	always	✔️	✔️	✔️
	local	✔️	✔️	✔️
	never	✔️	✔️	✔️

@TiGR

I think that there should be an option to make it work as I describe it

I think you already have that with:

[build]
render = 'link'
list = 'local'

The documentation for render = "link" states:

Do not render the page to disk, but assign Permalink and RelPermalink values.

Perhaps we could clarify this, something like:

Render page and assign Permalink and RelPermalink values, but do not render to disk.

[jmooring]

@TiGR Given my previous comment, I think we should close this.

[TiGR]

Yes, I think it works

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