getsops/sops · error

Error unmarshaling input YAML: %s

Error message

Error unmarshaling input YAML: %s

What it means

Error "Error unmarshaling input YAML: %s" thrown in getsops/sops.

Source

Thrown at stores/yaml/store.go:340

// sops.Tree runtime object
func (store *Store) LoadPlainFile(in []byte) (sops.TreeBranches, error) {
	var branches sops.TreeBranches
	if len(in) > 0 {
		// This is needed to make the yaml-decoder check for uniqueness of keys
		// Can probably be removed when https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/issues/814 is merged.
		if err := yaml.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(in)).Decode(make(map[string]interface{})); err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
	}
	d := yaml.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(in))
	for {
		var data yaml.Node
		err := d.Decode(&data)
		if err == io.EOF {
			break
		}
		if err != nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Error unmarshaling input YAML: %s", err)
		}

		branch, err := store.yamlDocumentNodeToTreeBranch(data)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Error unmarshaling input YAML: %s", err)
		}
		branches = append(branches, branch)
	}
	return branches, nil
}

func (store *Store) getIndentation() (int, error) {
	if store.config.Indent > 0 {
		return store.config.Indent, nil
	} else if store.config.Indent < 0 {
		return 0, errors.New("YAML Negative indentation not accepted")
	}
	return IndentDefault, nil

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at stores/yaml/store.go:340 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/30d9a7478e4c902e. Report an issue: GitHub.