Interesting unexpected with behaviour

[tracykev]

While working with the with command and these two different frontmatter examples :

background:
  color:

background:

{{with .Params.background.color }}
  {{.}}
{{end}}

will fail with the second case while the following will not.

{{with .Params.background}}
  {{with .color }}
    {{.}}
  {{end }}
{{end}}

Why is this important? Our CMS doesn’t add the frontmatter color: if it doesn’t exist. Maybe it will save someone some time.

I also didn’t expect this behaviour given with supposedly checks for existence.

[bep]

Your 2 examples isn’t functionally the same (the first will always fail), so I’m not sure what they demonstrate.

[tracykev]

The first actually works if the frontmatter for background and color exist.

[tracykev]

Actually had an edit to make forgot .Params

[tracykev]

I will put together a demo but until then please delete this topic. It doesn’t have to do with params it has to do with a map I’m passing in to a partial but it might be the 3rd party mod we are using as well. More investigation required.

[bep]

@tracykev

{{with .Params.background.color }}

I think you can rewrite the above to:

{{with (index .Params "background" "color") }}
{{ end }}

And it would work as expected. Not so pretty, but…