beego/beego · error

not exist section

Error message

not exist section

What it means

Error "not exist section" thrown in beego/beego.

Source

Thrown at core/config/yaml/yaml.go:288

}

// GetSection returns map for the given section
func (c *ConfigContainer) GetSection(section string) (map[string]string, error) {
	if v, ok := c.data[section]; ok {
		switch val := v.(type) {
		case map[string]interface{}:
			res := make(map[string]string, len(val))
			for k2, v2 := range val {
				res[k2] = fmt.Sprintf("%v", v2)
			}
			return res, nil
		case map[string]string:
			return val, nil
		default:
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("unexpected type: %v", v)
		}
	}
	return nil, errors.New("not exist section")
}

// SaveConfigFile save the config into file
func (c *ConfigContainer) SaveConfigFile(filename string) (err error) {
	// Write configuration file by filename.
	f, err := utils.OpenFileSecure(filename, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE, 0600)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer f.Close()
	buf, err := yaml.Marshal(c.data)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	_, err = f.Write(buf)
	return err
}

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at core/config/yaml/yaml.go:288 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of beego/beego@939cfde380 (2026-08-15). Data as JSON: /api/errors/a7e15708f922b328. Report an issue: GitHub.