setMeta and setMetaDefaults not working as expected

[thesec]

Trying to overwrite documents' meta info in docpad.coffee I tried

I. setMetaDefaults at first but it seems that urls gets not set?

II. ... switching to setMeta then urls does not get reset when already defined in YAML?

Is both the expected behaviour?

What I'd somehow expected is setMetaDefaults to set the defaults for any key passed in and setMeta to set any key to the value passed in, hence overwriting both default and a documents' property if defined in YAML.

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[greduan]

Could you please provide the code that shows how you're using it? Thanks! :)

[thesec]

Sure, I can commit it later ... :)

What's the intended behaviour for each though?

[greduan]

I don't personally have the knowledge of what each one does exactly, I do know setMetaDefaults can modify a file's meta since I've used it a little while ago.

[thesec]

Ah, ic :)

Here's how I use it to allow posts for multiple site areas:

collections:
        myCollection: ->
            @getCollection("html").findAllLive({relativeOutDirPath: /someFolder/}, [{filename:1}]).on "add", (model) ->
                area_urls = []
                area_urls.push model.getMeta("urls")...
                for area in model.getMeta("areas")
                    area_urls.push("/" + (area.replace /\s/g, "") + "/somePath/" + (model.getMeta("title").replace /\s/g, ""))
                model.setMeta({layout: "article", urls: area_urls})

Within YAML I set urls e.g. to

urls: ["/first", "/second"]

... and doing so just now ... it actually works ... tadaaa :D

... seems like some automagic got it working. Reverting to previous versions did not reveal a typo, different YAML or else :/

[thesec]

So setMeta now seems to work as I expected it to.

How is setMetaDefaults supposed to work?
Set defaults which are overwritten by YAML for the same?
Does it set the default value for any key given?

[balupton]

setMetaDefaults works by only setting values if they are still their default values, if a particular property has already been changed to a non-default value, the property is not set by setMetaDefaults. Is is useful for setting defaults via collection listeners, that can then be over-ridden on a as-needed basis by your document's meta data.

[thesec]

Thanks Benjamin.

Where can the MetaDefaults and their respective default values be found and looked at?

[balupton]

Closing due to age. Ecosystem has likely fixed this. Try again with v6.80 or later.