Access linked references (that aren't just images)

[mwickett]

What's the best method to iterate over referenced content objects? This is a single page marketing lander, so it's not a "blogging" use case.

I have a "client testimonial" section (id: clientSection) that has the following:

• Headline (single item)
• Body (single item)
• Reference field (multi-item) that points to a "testimonial" content type that has a couple of text fields and an image reference

I'm doing contentful.clientSection[0].headline and contentful.clientSection[0].body for the first two, and I tried doing:

each testimonial in contentful.clientSection[0].testimonials
        p= testimonial.testimonial
        p= testimonial.attribution

but because the testimonials are references, not directly in the clientSection object, it's not working.

Is there a way to follow reference links?

[elvingm]

Hi @mwickett,

Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding your issue, but the attributes for your testimonials reference there would need to be accessed like testimonial.fields.testimonial, testimonial.fields.attribution etc.

roots-contentful makes calls to Contentful's API supplying the include parameter max value of 10. Which should pull the referenced links on a content type up to 10 levels deep as described in their docs on linked entries.

Unlike the top level entry object (in your case - clientSection), roots-contentful does not lift the referenced links' fields attributes up a level so we have to add [reference].fields.[field-name].

Hope this helps

[mwickett]

Hey @elvingm,

Wow. Thank you for the detailed help, I really appreciate it.

I've got it working now and it makes a lot more sense now!

Is there a way to have roots-contentful display the results of the request? I tried running NODE_DEBUG='request' roots watch but no dice. Seeing the JSON response from Contentful would really help with templating.

Thanks again!