getsops/sops · error

error emitting binary store

Error message

error emitting binary store

What it means

Error "error emitting binary store" thrown in getsops/sops.

Source

Thrown at stores/json/store.go:73

// LoadPlainFile loads a plaintext json file onto a sops.Tree encapsulated
// within a sops.TreeBranches object
func (store BinaryStore) LoadPlainFile(in []byte) (sops.TreeBranches, error) {
	return sops.TreeBranches{
		sops.TreeBranch{
			sops.TreeItem{
				Key:   "data",
				Value: string(in),
			},
		},
	}, nil
}

// EmitEncryptedFile produces an encrypted json file's bytes from its corresponding sops.Tree object
func (store BinaryStore) EmitEncryptedFile(in sops.Tree) ([]byte, error) {
	return store.store.EmitEncryptedFile(in)
}

var BinaryStoreEmitPlainError = errors.New("error emitting binary store")

// EmitPlainFile produces plaintext json file's bytes from its corresponding sops.TreeBranches object
func (store BinaryStore) EmitPlainFile(in sops.TreeBranches) ([]byte, error) {
	if len(in) != 1 {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: there must be exactly one tree branch", BinaryStoreEmitPlainError)
	}
	// JSON stores a single object per file
	for _, item := range in[0] {
		if item.Key == "data" {
			if value, ok := item.Value.(string); ok {
				return []byte(value), nil
			} else {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: 'data' key in tree does not have a string value", BinaryStoreEmitPlainError)
			}
		}
	}
	return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: no binary data found in tree", BinaryStoreEmitPlainError)
}

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at stores/json/store.go:73 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of getsops/sops@13442bb981 (2026-09-01). Data as JSON: /api/errors/a055a52be42a5d6b. Report an issue: GitHub.