Parsing Inline Tables

[jmassara]

I'm trying to use TOML Inline tables and running into an issue. Given the following program:

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "github.com/naoina/toml"
)

const good = `
[heading]
key1 = "value1"

[[heading.array]]
key2 = "value2"

[[heading.array]]
key2 = "value3"
  [heading.array.map]
  key3 = "value4"

[[heading.array]]
key2 = "value5"
  [heading.array.map]
  key3 = "value6"
`

const bad = `
[heading]
key1 = "value1"

[[heading.array]]
key2 = "value2"

[[heading.array]]
key2 = "value3"
map = { key3 = "value4" }

[[heading.array]]
key2 = "value5"
map = { key3 = "value6" }
`

func main() {
    if _, err := toml.Parse([]byte(good)); err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }
    if _, err := toml.Parse([]byte(bad)); err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }
}

Yields this error:

toml: line 14: table 'map' is in conflict with normal table in line 10

In the bad config, why does the second definition of map interfere with the first one? I can change the bad config to the following and it works fine:

const bad = `
[heading]
key1 = "value1"

[[heading.array]]
key2 = "value2"

[[heading.array]]
key2 = "value3"
map = { key3 = "value4" }

[[heading.array]]
key2 = "value5"
  [heading.array.map]
  key3 = "value6"
`

[moonmeister]

Unless I'm mistaken to create a sub value you have to do [heading.array.map] as you've shown. It fails when doing map = { key3 = "value4" } because you're trying to create the same variable/key twice. I haven't looked at the spec recently though so I could be wrong.

[jmassara]

Yes, it's the same variable/key but inside of a different array element (just like key2). I would think map = { key3 = "value4" } is just syntax sugar for specifying it the longer, uglier way.

[jmassara]

Ping.