zed-industries/zed · error

Default description not a string

Error message

Default description not a string

What it means

Raised in handle_postprocessing when the `zed-html` preprocess output's default-description key exists but its value is not a TOML/JSON string (e.g. a table or array). The preprocessor config is malformed at that key and docs postprocessing panics with this message.

Source

Thrown at crates/docs_preprocessor/src/main.rs:710

    let zed_html = output.remove("zed-html").expect("zed-html output defined");
    let redirects = zed_html
        .get("redirect")
        .and_then(|redirects| redirects.as_table())
        .map(|redirects| {
            redirects
                .iter()
                .filter_map(|(source, destination)| {
                    destination
                        .as_str()
                        .map(|destination| (source.clone(), destination.to_string()))
                })
                .collect::<Vec<_>>()
        });
    let default_description = zed_html
        .get("default-description")
        .expect("Default description not found")
        .as_str()
        .expect("Default description not a string")
        .to_string();
    let default_title = zed_html
        .get("default-title")
        .expect("Default title not found")
        .as_str()
        .expect("Default title not a string")
        .to_string();
    let amplitude_key = std::env::var("DOCS_AMPLITUDE_API_KEY").unwrap_or_default();
    let consent_io_instance = std::env::var("DOCS_CONSENT_IO_INSTANCE").unwrap_or_default();
    let docs_channel = std::env::var("DOCS_CHANNEL").unwrap_or_else(|_| "stable".to_string());
    let site_url = std::env::var("MDBOOK_BOOK__SITE_URL")
        .ok()
        .filter(|site_url| !site_url.trim().is_empty())
        .unwrap_or_else(|| {
            match docs_channel.as_str() {
                "nightly" => "/docs/nightly/",
                "preview" => "/docs/preview/",
                _ => "/docs/",

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Solutions

1. Quote the default-description value in book.toml so it parses as a string
2. Validate book.toml types against the expected schema

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at crates/docs_preprocessor/src/main.rs:710 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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