What is the proposed use of the cockpit "layout" features?

[fikaproductions]

What is the proposed use of the cockpit "layout" features?

[DigitalGoldfish]

I am not sure if you know this article already, It's the best explanation of the Layout field I could find. https://medium.com/@pierreberchtold/gatsby-cockpit-layout-field-e908f4dbd87b

[WhippetsAintDogs]

Hi @loremipson , I haven't tried the layout field myself. So naturally, it's not actually supported by the plugin. I'll have a look a this soon, stay tuned (any PR in that regard is also welcome) ☺

[patesson]

Part of Layout appears to come through already. I haven't tried all the components, but the text based ones work already, returning "'id', 'class', and 'text'. Images return the same but these values don't make sense for the, and I would image any custom components would have similar issues

[loremipson]

Would be great to get that layout parser in this plugin, as it seems gatsby-plugin-cockpit progress has ceased for now.

[DigitalGoldfish]

It seems to be a pattern with gatsby plugins for cockpit that they get abondoned after a short time gatsby-plugin-cockpit was the third I used and that ceased to be developed. I do hope this one survives ...

Back to the layout field ... as @POGRaphy said, parts of the layout fields are coming through already but the way they are currently added to the graphql schema is a dead end; it wouldn't be possible to write GraphQL queries that match every possible combination that can be in the inferred schema. gatsby-plugin-cockpit uses a GraphQLJson field to return the whole object without gatsby trying to infer a schema for it.
I had a look at the code today and I believe I can migrate it to this plugin without too much effort. I hope to find some time to create a PR over the weekend.

[DigitalGoldfish]

As promised - experimental support for the layout field type can be found in #14. It would be awesome if one of you can spend some time and test it.

[WhippetsAintDogs]

Support for Layout and Layout-grid added in version 1.0.14+. Closing this issue.

[WhippetsAintDogs]

Reopened this issue in order to add support for images and assets nested in Layout and Layout-grid field.