Allow cascade _target to work with non toml fm

The TOML lib unmarshals slices of string maps to []map[string]interface{}
whereas YAML and JSON decode to []interface{}

The existing tests only check for TOML working correctly, and _target
with cascade did not work at all for frontmatter defined in other formats.

Add a function to normalize those slices

Fixes #7874

2 files changed, 51 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/common/maps/maps.go b/common/maps/maps.go
index 8b42ca764..41d9b6e15 100644
--- a/common/maps/maps.go
+++ b/common/maps/maps.go
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 package maps
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/gobwas/glob"
@@ -64,6 +65,23 @@ func ToStringMap(in interface{}) map[string]interface{} {
 	return m
 }
 
+func ToSliceStringMap(in interface{}) ([]map[string]interface{}, error) {
+	switch v := in.(type) {
+	case []map[string]interface{}:
+		return v, nil
+	case []interface{}:
+		var s []map[string]interface{}
+		for _, entry := range v {
+			if vv, ok := entry.(map[string]interface{}); ok {
+				s = append(s, vv)
+			}
+		}
+		return s, nil
+	default:
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unable to cast %#v of type %T to []map[string]interface{}", in, in)
+	}
+}
+
 type keyRename struct {
 	pattern glob.Glob
 	newKey  string
diff --git a/common/maps/maps_test.go b/common/maps/maps_test.go
index 6e4947adb..bde77071d 100644
--- a/common/maps/maps_test.go
+++ b/common/maps/maps_test.go
@@ -75,6 +75,39 @@ func TestToLower(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestToSliceStringMap(t *testing.T) {
+	c := qt.New(t)
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		input    interface{}
+		expected []map[string]interface{}
+	}{
+		{
+			input: []map[string]interface{}{
+				{"abc": 123},
+			},
+			expected: []map[string]interface{}{
+				{"abc": 123},
+			},
+		}, {
+			input: []interface{}{
+				map[string]interface{}{
+					"def": 456,
+				},
+			},
+			expected: []map[string]interface{}{
+				{"def": 456},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		v, err := ToSliceStringMap(test.input)
+		c.Assert(err, qt.IsNil)
+		c.Assert(v, qt.DeepEquals, test.expected)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestRenameKeys(t *testing.T) {
 	c := qt.New(t)