Fill Metadata slice in init(). Removed GetArticleMetadata. A slice instead was made public.

web/articles.go

@@ -29,24 +29,7 @@ type ArticleMetadata struct {
 	URL   string
 }
 
-// GetArticleMetadata returns a slice of metadata that is sorted by ID
-func GetArticleMetadata() (meta []ArticleMetadata) {
-	for urlid, article := range articles {
-
-		meta = append(meta,
-			ArticleMetadata{
-				ID:    article.ID,
-				Date:  article.Date,
-				Title: article.Title,
-				URL:   "stuff/article/" + urlid})
-	}
-
-	sort.Slice(meta, func(i, j int) bool {
-		return meta[i].ID > meta[j].ID
-	})
-
-	return
-}
+var Metadata []ArticleMetadata
 
 func GetArticle(name string) *article.Article {
 	if artcl, ok := articles[name]; ok {
@@ -56,18 +39,21 @@ func GetArticle(name string) *article.Article {
 }
 
 func init() {
+
+	//// Load articles
+
 	entries, _ := articlesFS.ReadDir("articles")
 
 	for _, entry := range entries {
 		if strings.HasSuffix(entry.Name(), articleFileExtension) {
 			name := strings.TrimSuffix(entry.Name(), articleFileExtension)
 
-			meta, err := articlesFS.ReadFile("articles/" + entry.Name())
+			meta, err := articlesFS.ReadFile("articles/" + name + articleMetaExtension)
 			if err != nil {
 				log.Fatalln("an article \"", name, "\" cannot be read:", err)
 			}
 
-			md, err := articlesFS.ReadFile("articles/" + name + articleMetaExtension)
+			md, err := articlesFS.ReadFile("articles/" + entry.Name())
 			if err != nil {
 				log.Fatalln("a metadata for an article \"", name, "\" cannot be read:", err)
 			}
@@ -78,4 +64,21 @@ func init() {
 			}
 		}
 	}
+
+	//// Fill and sort metadata slice
+
+	for urlid, article := range articles {
+		Metadata = append(Metadata,
+			ArticleMetadata{
+				ID:    article.ID,
+				Date:  article.Date,
+				Title: article.Title,
+				URL:   "stuff/article/" + urlid})
+	}
+
+	sort.Slice(Metadata, func(i, j int) bool {
+		return Metadata[i].ID > Metadata[j].ID
+	})
+
+	articlesFS = embed.FS{}
 }