Create a New Entry (#11)

* create_new_entry

* Format and lint with Ruff

* add tests

* Format and lint with Ruff

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Co-authored-by: Ruff <[email protected]>

Author: kjaymiller

Diff for: README.md

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ Some pages will be looking for information that is provided in the frontmatter.
 > **NOTE**
 > These attributes **CANNOT** be used in the content itself, but you can use them in the template generation.
 
-
 ## Parsing the Data
 
 The base parser doesn't is a pass-thru parser meaning the content input will be passed through.

Diff for: render_engine_parser/base_parsers.py

@@ -62,3 +62,19 @@ def parse(
             extras: dictionary with extras to augment attributes
         """
         return content
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def create_entry(*, filepath: pathlib.Path | None, content: str = "Hello World", **kwargs) -> str:
+        """
+        Writes the content type that would be parsed to the content_path.
+
+        attrs:
+          filepath: Only used if reading from an existing path
+        """
+
+        post = frontmatter.Post(content)
+
+        for key, val in kwargs.items():
+            post[key] = val
+
+        return frontmatter.dumps(post)

Diff for: requirements.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.13
+# by the following command:
+#
+#    pip-compile --extra=dev
+#
+coverage[toml]==7.6.1
+    # via pytest-cov
+iniconfig==2.0.0
+    # via pytest
+packaging==24.1
+    # via pytest
+pluggy==1.5.0
+    # via pytest
+pytest==8.3.2
+    # via
+    #   pytest-cov
+    #   render_engine_parser (pyproject.toml)
+pytest-cov==5.0.0
+    # via render_engine_parser (pyproject.toml)
+python-frontmatter==1.1.0
+    # via render_engine_parser (pyproject.toml)
+pyyaml==6.0.2
+    # via python-frontmatter
+ruff==0.6.4
+    # via render_engine_parser (pyproject.toml)

Diff for: tests/test_base_parser.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import frontmatter
 import pytest
 
 from render_engine_parser.base_parsers import BasePageParser, parse_content
@@ -52,3 +53,17 @@ def test_base_parser_parse_content_path(base_content_path):
 
     expected_result = ({"title": "This is a Test"}, "# This is a Test")
     assert expected_result == BasePageParser.parse_content_path(base_content_path)
+
+
+def test_base_parser_net_entry():
+    data = BasePageParser.create_entry(
+        filepath=None,  # reminder this is ignored in the base case
+        content="This is a Test",
+        title="Untitled Entry",
+        slug="untitled-entry",
+    )
+
+    post = frontmatter.loads(data)
+    assert post["title"] == "Untitled Entry"
+    assert post["slug"] == "untitled-entry"
+    assert post.content == "This is a Test"