get_url: always add trailing slash unless path has extension?

[dannyvankooten]

I just migrated my blog from Jekyll to Zola and after it's been great once I got the hang of it! Thank you for your great work on it.

One thing I ran into and that the docs were a tiny bit ambiguous about was the proper way to generate permalinks using the get_url Tera function.

The documentation for get_url states:

By default, assets will not have a trailing slash.

This + #85 gave me the impression that get_url('/about/) would return https://mysite.com/about/ but it was stripping the trailing slash because I wasn't using the internal linking (@/) feature.

Would it make sense to always append a trailing slash for anything that looks like a URL / directory? Eg anything that does not have a file extension?

[Keats]

get_url has a trailing_slash parameter to select whether to add it or not. I'd prefer not do it automatically.

[dannyvankooten]

@Keats It's removing it automatically in this case.

[Keats]

even with trailing_slash=true?

[dannyvankooten]

No, then it works as expected. It's just that I thought it would be a nice improvement to not strip it automatically for something that is obviously not an asset file.

Alternatively, maybe we can update the documentation to state that anything passed into get_url (that is not an internal link starting with '@/') while the 'trailing_slash' argument is omitted will have no trailing slash.

[Keats]

We can update the documentation to remove the asset word from

By default, assets will not have a trailing slash. You can force one by passing trailing_slash=true to the get_url function.