add option for --front_matter to control whether generate front matter.

.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# default output directory for the converter.
+output/*
 
 # Created by https://www.gitignore.io/api/pycharm,python
 
@@ -149,4 +151,4 @@ ENV/
 # Rope project settings
 .ropeproject
 
-# End of https://www.gitignore.io/api/pycharm,python
+# End of https://www.gitignore.io/api/pycharm,python

main.py

@@ -3,8 +3,16 @@ import argparse
 from src.dokuwiki_to_hugo import DokuWikiToHugo
 
 
-def main(directory, root):
-    DokuWikiToHugo(root).doku_to_hugo(directory)
+def str2bool(v):
+    if v.lower() in ('yes', 'true', 't', 'y', '1'):
+        return True
+    elif v.lower() in ('no', 'false', 'f', 'n', '0'):
+        return False
+    else:
+        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError('Boolean value expected.')
+
+def main(directory, options):
+    DokuWikiToHugo(options.root, front_matter=options.front_matter).doku_to_hugo(directory)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
@@ -12,5 +20,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     parser.add_argument("-d", "--dir", help="the directory of your DokuWiki pages collection", required=True)
     parser.add_argument("-r", "--root", help="the root directory name in your hugo content where to link to",
                         required=False)
+    parser.add_argument("--front_matter", default=True, type=str2bool,
+                        help="whether to generate front matter in the converted markdown.")
     opts = parser.parse_args()
-    main(opts.dir, opts.root)
+    main(opts.dir, opts)

src/dokuwiki_to_hugo.py

@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 import os
 import shutil
 
-from src.hugo_file_config import HugoFileConfig
+from src.hugo_front_matter import HugoFrontMatter
 from src.markdown_converter import MarkdownConverter
 
 
 class DokuWikiToHugo:
     root_dir = ""
 
-    def __init__(self, root=None):
-        self.header_converter = HugoFileConfig()
+    def __init__(self, root=None, front_matter=True):
+        self.header_converter = HugoFrontMatter()
+        self.convert_frontmatter = front_matter
         DokuWikiToHugo.root_dir = root
         pass
 
@@ -24,7 +25,10 @@ class DokuWikiToHugo:
         for root, subFolders, files in os.walk(directory):
             files = [f for f in files if not f[0] == '.']
             for file in files:
-                self.process_file(root, file)
+                try:
+                    self.process_file(root, file)
+                except:
+                    print('failed to convert ' + file)
 
     def process_file(self, root, file):
         destination_dir = 'output/' + root
@@ -35,11 +39,11 @@ class DokuWikiToHugo:
 
         if not os.path.exists(destination_dir):
             os.makedirs(destination_dir)
-
-        header = self.header_converter.create(source_file)
         converted_text = MarkdownConverter(source_file).convert()
 
         with open(destination_dir + '/' + destination_file, "w") as text_file:
-            text_file.write(header)
+            if self.convert_frontmatter:
+                header = self.header_converter.create(source_file)
+                text_file.write(header)
             text_file.write('\n')
             text_file.write(converted_text)

src/hugo_front_matter.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import os.path
 import time
 
 
-class HugoFileConfig:
+class HugoFrontMatter:
 
     def filename(self, location):
         return location.split('/')[-1][0:-4]

test/test_hugo_front_matter.py

@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ from os import utime
 from time import mktime
 from unittest import TestCase
 
-from src.hugo_file_config import HugoFileConfig
+from src.hugo_front_matter import HugoFrontMatter
 
 
-class TestHugoFileConfig(TestCase):
+class TestHugoFrontMatter(TestCase):
     def set_file_timestamp(self):
         date = datetime(2014, 10, 10, 12)
         u_time = mktime(date.timetuple())
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ class TestHugoFileConfig(TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
         self.set_file_timestamp()
-        self.header = HugoFileConfig()
+        self.header = HugoFrontMatter()
 
     def test_dokuwiki_in_subdir_creates_tags_for_each_dir(self):
         expected_header = """+++