How to move outputs up one directory?

[StevenTCramer]

I want to group some input into a folder but don't want that folder in the output. What is the easiest way to do that?

I thought _directory.yml would be how to do it but I can't figure out the right incantation.

[StevenTCramer]

I got the following to do what I wanted.

changing
pages/components/capturing-unexpected-parameters/
to
components/capturing-unexpected-parameters/

DestinationPath: 
  =>
  { 
    List<string> extensions = new List<string> {"html","cshtml","md"};
    var pagesPath = new NormalizedPath("pages");
    var relativePath = pagesPath.GetRelativePath(Document.Destination);
    Context.LogDebug($"relativePath:{relativePath}");
    if(extensions.Any(str => str == Document.Destination.Extension))
    {
      var newDestination = relativePath.ChangeExtension("html");
      return newDestination;
    } else
    {
      return relativePath;
    }
  }

Maybe there is a cleaner way?

[daveaglick]

Beat me to it :) (I'm obviously running a little slow with discussion responses lately 😬)

While it's pretty easy to exclude an entire folder using the directory metadata and changing content/media types, that's not quite what you're after. What you have here, or something quite similar, is probably the best way. Putting code like this in the _directory.yml file is probably possible using computed metadata values for the destination value but it would get pretty messy and hard to debug.