Multiple colons

[hsheth2]

This is a fun one - turns out Looker is accepting of lkml code that has multiple colon (:) characters in a row, possibly with spaces between.

This works in both measure/dimension definitions and in value_format, and probably in other places too.

view: my_view {
  # other stuff

  measure: :: ::::: my_measure {
    type: number
    value_format:: : "0.00%"
  }
}

The current lkml parser (v1.3.1) throws an exception on this input.

[joshtemple]

Hey @hsheth2! I'm not sure how I feel about supporting these odd idiosyncrasies of the Looker parser. How does lkml not supporting this kind of syntax affect your usage of the tool?

[hsheth2]

@joshtemple it's not a huge deal - this isn't a super common bug, but it does come up. Folks find it confusing because the Looker UI's "validate lookml" button says everything is good, but then we fail to parse their files.