getsops/sops · error

Error marshaling to INI: %s

Error message

Error marshaling to INI: %s

What it means

Error "Error marshaling to INI: %s" thrown in getsops/sops.

Source

Thrown at stores/ini/store.go:179

// EmitEncryptedFile returns encrypted INI file bytes corresponding to a sops.Tree
// runtime object
func (store *Store) EmitEncryptedFile(in sops.Tree) ([]byte, error) {
	branches, err := stores.SerializeMetadata(in, stores.MetadataOpts{
		Flatten:        stores.MetadataFlattenBelowTop,
		EscapeNewlines: true,
	})
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Error marshaling metadata: %s", err)
	}
	return store.EmitPlainFile(branches)
}

// EmitPlainFile returns the plaintext INI file bytes corresponding to a sops.TreeBranches object
func (store *Store) EmitPlainFile(in sops.TreeBranches) ([]byte, error) {
	out, err := store.iniFromTreeBranches(in)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Error marshaling to INI: %s", err)
	}
	return out, nil
}

func (store Store) encodeValue(v interface{}) ([]byte, error) {
	switch v := v.(type) {
	case sops.TreeBranches:
		return store.encodeTree(v)
	default:
		return json.Marshal(v)
	}
}

// EmitValue returns a single value encoded in a generic interface{} as bytes
func (store *Store) EmitValue(v interface{}) ([]byte, error) {
	return store.encodeValue(v)
}

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at stores/ini/store.go:179 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/86230c6a04a2989a. Report an issue: GitHub.