`fab serve` and `make devserver` use different HTTP Handlers and as a
result they behave differently. This makes sure `fab serve` also uses
the Handler defined in `pelican.server` in order to get rid of the
inconsistency.
Some metadata values cause problems when empty. For example, a markdown file
containing a Slug: line with no additional text causing Pelican to produce a
file named ".html" instead of generating a proper file name. Others, like
those created by a PATH_METADATA regex, must be preserved even if empty,
so things like PAGE_URL="filename{customvalue}.html" will always work.
Essentially, we want to discard empty metadata that we know will be useless
or problematic. This is better than raising an exception because (a) it
allows users to deliberately keep empty metadata in their source files for
filling in later, and (b) users shouldn't be forced to fix empty metadata
created by blog migration tools (see #1398).
The metadata processors are the ideal place to do this, because they know
the type of data they are handling and whether an empty value is wanted.
Unfortunately, they can't discard items, and neither can process_metadata(),
because their return values are always saved by calling code. We can't
safely change the calling code, because some of it lives in custom reader
classes out in the field, and we don't want to break those working systems.
Discarding empty values at the time of use isn't good enough, because that
still allows useless empty values in a source file to override configured
defaults.
My solution:
- When processing a list of values, a metadata processor will omit any
unwanted empty ones from the list it returns.
- When processing an entirely unwanted value, it will return something easily
identifiable that will pass through the reader code.
- When collecting the processed metadata, read_file() will filter out items
identified as unwanted.
These metadata are affected by this change:
author, authors, category, slug, status, tags.
I also removed a bit of now-superfluous code from generators.py that was
discarding empty authors at the time of use.
Otherwise, `RELATIVE_URLS` in the config file is ignored and
`RELATIVE_URLS` is set to `False` if `--relative-urls` is not
specified.
Fixes an issue introduced in #1592
Made a few changes to the README to emphasize Pelican's position as a
general-purpose static site generator, and not just a blogging tool.
See #1645 for more details.
Added tests to ensure that:
- THEME and deprecated *_DIR settings result in the expected configurations
- Post headers are formatted correctly in both Markdown and reStructuredText
- Files specified in IGNORE_FILES setting are properly ignored
- Generator.get_files()'s `paths` argument is backwards-compatible with strings
