Skip Markdown metadata parsing within metadata

4 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pelican/readers.py b/pelican/readers.py
index 673b637e..dea11fbd 100644
--- a/pelican/readers.py
+++ b/pelican/readers.py
@@ -302,6 +302,9 @@ class MarkdownReader(BaseReader):
         """Return the dict containing document metadata"""
         formatted_fields = self.settings['FORMATTED_FIELDS']
 
+        # prevent metadata extraction in fields
+        self._md.preprocessors.pop('meta', None)
+
         output = {}
         for name, value in meta.items():
             name = name.lower()
diff --git a/pelican/tests/content/article_with_markdown_and_nested_metadata.md b/pelican/tests/content/article_with_markdown_and_nested_metadata.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3968027b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pelican/tests/content/article_with_markdown_and_nested_metadata.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Title: Article with markdown and nested summary metadata
+Date: 2012-10-30
+Summary: Test: This metadata value looks like metadata
+
+This is some content.
diff --git a/pelican/tests/test_generators.py b/pelican/tests/test_generators.py
index 3ab341a3..1f8157a6 100644
--- a/pelican/tests/test_generators.py
+++ b/pelican/tests/test_generators.py
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ class TestArticlesGenerator(unittest.TestCase):
             ['Article title', 'published', 'Default', 'article'],
             ['Article with markdown and summary metadata multi', 'published',
              'Default', 'article'],
+            ['Article with markdown and nested summary metadata', 'published',
+             'Default', 'article'],
             ['Article with markdown and summary metadata single', 'published',
              'Default', 'article'],
             ['Article with markdown containing footnotes', 'published',
@@ -554,6 +556,7 @@ class TestArticlesGenerator(unittest.TestCase):
             'Article title',
             'Article with Nonconformant HTML meta tags',
             'Article with an inline SVG',
+            'Article with markdown and nested summary metadata',
             'Article with markdown and summary metadata multi',
             'Article with markdown and summary metadata single',
             'Article with markdown containing footnotes',
diff --git a/pelican/tests/test_readers.py b/pelican/tests/test_readers.py
index 5b87aeac..70e6da77 100644
--- a/pelican/tests/test_readers.py
+++ b/pelican/tests/test_readers.py
@@ -645,6 +645,19 @@ class MdReaderTest(ReaderTest):
         }
         self.assertDictHasSubset(metadata, expected)
 
+    def test_metadata_not_parsed_for_metadata(self):
+        settings = get_settings()
+        settings['FORMATTED_FIELDS'] = ['summary']
+
+        reader = readers.MarkdownReader(settings=settings)
+        content, metadata = reader.read(
+            _path('article_with_markdown_and_nested_metadata.md'))
+        expected = {
+            'title': 'Article with markdown and nested summary metadata',
+            'summary': '<p>Test: This metadata value looks like metadata</p>',
+        }
+        self.assertDictHasSubset(metadata, expected)
+
     def test_empty_file(self):
         reader = readers.MarkdownReader(settings=get_settings())
         content, metadata = reader.read(