// Copyright 2020 The Gitea Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a MIT-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package markdown import ( "errors" "strings" "gopkg.in/yaml.v2" ) func isYAMLSeparator(line string) bool { line = strings.TrimSpace(line) for i := 0; i < len(line); i++ { if line[i] != '-' { return false } } return len(line) > 2 } // ExtractMetadata consumes a markdown file, parses YAML frontmatter, // and returns the frontmatter metadata separated from the markdown content func ExtractMetadata(contents string, out interface{}) (string, error) { var front, body []string lines := strings.Split(contents, "\n") for idx, line := range lines { if idx == 0 { // First line has to be a separator if !isYAMLSeparator(line) { return "", errors.New("frontmatter must start with a separator line") } continue } if isYAMLSeparator(line) { front, body = lines[1:idx], lines[idx+1:] break } } if len(front) == 0 { return "", errors.New("could not determine metadata") } if err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(strings.Join(front, "\n")), out); err != nil { return "", err } return strings.Join(body, "\n"), nil }