I have tried both the ymlfront directive and the YAML markup (with the
`---` delimiter), no luck. Any idea what I am doing wrong? --
[[anarcat]]
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+> I'm afraid I can't tell from here what the problem could be. It's clear that ymlfront is turned on, or the ymlfront directive in your sandbox page wouldn't be processed. The only thing I can suggest, in order to get more information about what could be going wrong, would be to do a dump of your indexdb file (see [[tips/inside dot ikiwiki]]) and see what the data for your sandbox page is. If there is field data there, that would indicate a problem with getfield; if there isn't field data there, that would indicate a problem with field or ymlfront.
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+> Oh, and you only need to register "meta" with field_register; that will enable the data defined by the "meta" plugin to be read by field. Unless "hostname", "MAC" and "IP" are plugins, you don't need to add them to field_register. They can be taken care of by the ymlfront plugin. Perhaps that is the problem?
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+> --[[KathrynAndersen]]
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+> > I have tried removing the other fields from the declaration, no luck. I did, however, notice the following error in the `--rebuild` output:
+> >
+> > ymlfront parse: Load of sandbox data failed: YAML Error: Stream does not end with newline character
+> > Code: YAML_PARSE_ERR_NO_FINAL_NEWLINE
+> > Line: 0
+> > Document: 0
+> > at /usr/share/perl5/YAML/Loader.pm line 38
+> >
+> > Now *that* has to be related... ;) In the index.db, there is no ymlfront metadata for the sandbox page... Note that the `---` delimiter approach doesn't trigger the warning but doesn't populate the DB either...
+> >
+> > Finally note that after adding debugging code, I was able to figure out that this seems to be using the `YAML::XS` library. I have also traced the data and confirmed that `$yml_str` does get properly initialized in `parse_yml`, and it is where the error is generated. So maybe there's something wrong with the YAML library?
+> >
+> > Update: well, look here: using `YAML::Syck` doesn't yield the same error *and* the metadata actually works! So this is a problem specific to `YAML::Any`. Hardcoding `use YAML::XS` or *even* `use YAML::Any` fixed the problem for me.
+> >
+> > Now delimiters also work, but the output is kind of ugly: it gets parsed as regular markdown makup so the `---` makes horizontal lines in the beginning and headings in the end... --[[anarcat]]