Accessing data from data files causing strange error

support
1

I’m following the directions in the “Data” documentation, and I receive the following error on my template:

ERROR: 2015/09/14 Error while rendering page post/post/second.md: reflect: call of reflect

I have the following content in content/data/User0123.yml

Name: User0123
"Short Description": "He is a **jolly good** fellow."
Achievements:
  - "Can create a Key, Value list from Data File"
  - "Learns Hugo"
  - "Reads documentation"

In the template I use the following code:

<div>Short Description of {{.Site.Data.User0123.Name}}: <p>{{ index .Site.Data.User0123 "Short Description" | markdownify }}</p></div>
2

Just tested this example and it works for me. Which means it must be something environmental (OS?) or something totally unrelated.

3

Hmm. Could be unrelated. OS is Yosemite. Tried this on another Yosemite Mac and get the same error when running hugo --verbose

4

FWIW, here’s a link to the code. It’s really bare bones right now, so I suspect I’m missing something simple.

5

It’s definitely something squirrley in my code. I tried this with a non-custom theme and it works fine.

6

OK, this was a total user error. I had the data directory in the wrong location. Doh!

7

@mattstratton Have you figured out how to swap Short Description for a variable such as .Title?

Update, @bep gave us the answer here Get variable in order to access named values in datafile - support - HUGO