Map/Dictionary Widget

[bmackinney]

https://answers.netlify.com/t/map-dictionary-fields/5241 has problem faced and solution found.

I'm making a files collection for hugo configuration files, and to edit the taxonomies field requires users to be able to define keys and values, resulting in something like:

[taxonomies]
featured = "featured"
topic = "topics"
tag = "tags"
team = "team"

I originally thought the code widget would work, but it outputs only strings.

[erezrokah]

Hi @bmackinney, thanks for sharing your use case. It does seem useful to have a dictionary widget.
We would happily accept a PR for it, if someone is up for it.

[bmackinney]

@erezrokah I'm up for it - it also looks like much of the work has already been done, by Pablo. My approach to this PR would be to:

• rename "Ingredients" to "Dictionaries" in his widget,
• package it according to the instructions at https://www.netlifycms.org/docs/custom-widgets/#writing-custom-widgets-as-a-separate-package, and
• add the package to /packages.

Am I missing anything?

[erezrokah]

Hi @bmackinney, thanks for looking into this. You approach seems 💯

However, I think might be better to clone an existing widget package instead of following this guide, as we already have the build step configured, etc.

Other than that, maybe adding some tests for the new widget?

[bmackinney]

@erezrokah is it possible for the code widget to output raw code instead of a string? I think it would be a simpler solution that will satisfy more of my needs.

[erezrokah]

@erezrokah is it possible for the code widget to output raw code instead of a string? I think it would be a simpler solution that will satisfy more of my needs.

Not at the moment. Widget values are always coupled to a field name (no top level values).
Also we'd have to consider that raw code can break yaml/markdown syntax