Content: How to get only the content of a json file?

[Rednas83]

Tried
return await this.$content('settings').fetch()
Result

Expected only the content of the file and not the meta information

[mathieunicolas]

Hi there !
I've seen nothing about this in the docs. A workaround could be using a function to make this automatic with delete operator ?

    const test = await $content("/", "test").fetch();
    delete test.createdAt;
    delete test.dir;
    delete test.extension;
    delete test.path;
    delete test.slug;
    delete test.updatedAt;

Or, if you know you will always have items in the root of your JSON, you can use the only('items') method. It's more specific so it won't work with any JSON, but it's more simple :

return await this.$content('settings').only('items').fetch()

Third option, you can use the nodeJS require method :
const test = await require("~/content/test.json");

It's not a function from the JS API, but nodeJS. So you will only be able to use it on the server. I don't know the limitations of require so maybe this option wouldn't be recommanded, for some reason I don't know :
const test = await require("~/content/test.json");

[Rednas83]

Only delete and require worked for me to get the content.

        // return await this.$content('settings').fetch() // => returns content and meta information
        // return await this.$content('settings').only('items').fetch() // => returns Object (empty)
        // return await this.$content('settings').only(['items']).fetch() // => returns Object (empty)
        return await require('../content/settings.json') // => Returns content
        // // eslint-disable-next-line no-var
        // var result = await this.$content(iTable).fetch()
        // delete result.createdAt
        // delete result.dir
        // delete result.extension
        // delete result.path
        // delete result.slug
        // delete result.updatedAt
        // return result

[benjamincanac]

Hey @Rednas83

As @mathieunicolas mentioned you can use only to select a subset of fields: https://content.nuxtjs.org/fetching#onlykeys.