Body field is missing

[kjetilhartveit]

Hello! It seems the body field is missing from my types. I haven't managed to track down the cause (don't have time now), but definitely happening in the transformType() function.

This console.log() could help in tracking down the cause.

if (widget.name === "body") {
    console.log('body types', types);
    // outputs: body types [ [ 'title: string;', 'date: string;' ], [] ]
    return types;
}

My config and generated type:

Config.yml

...
collections:
    - label: "Blog"
      name: "blog"
      folder: "content/post"
      create: true
      slug: "{{slug}}"
      fields:
          - { label: "Title", name: "title", widget: "string", required: true }
          - {
                label: "Publish date",
                name: "publishDate",
                widget: "datetime",
                required: true,
            }
          - {
                label: "Featured Image",
                name: "thumbnail",
                widget: "image",
                required: false,
            }
          - { label: "Body", name: "body", widget: "markdown", required: true }
          - {
                label: "Created date",
                name: "createdDate",
                widget: "datetime",
                required: true,
            }
...

Generated type:

export interface Blog {
  title: string;
  publishDate: string;
  thumbnail?: string;
  createdDate: string;
}

[jsaari97]

Hello, thanks for checking out this library!

This is the intended behaviour, as body is a reserved field name in Netlify CMS, referring to the content after the frontmatter:

In files with frontmatter, one field should be named body. This special field represents the section of the document (usually markdown) that comes after the frontmatter.

Netlify CMS documentation

[kjetilhartveit]

Yeah, I figured this was the reason in hindsight. It does assume you're using frontmatter though and that the metadata (frontmatter data) and content are separate interfaces. I guess it should work for most people though (me included), so I suggest perhaps just clarifying that the body field won't be included so that people (like me!) won't get confused.

Also: thanks for making this neat library :)

[jsaari97]

I'll definitely add a note of this in the documentation for future users.