Function processTemplateFrontmatter

src/utils/templateProcessor.ts:109–140

* Process template variables in frontmatter

(
	frontmatterContent: string,
	taskData: TemplateData | ICSTemplateData
)

 * Process template variables in frontmatter
 */
function processTemplateFrontmatter(
	frontmatterContent: string,
	taskData: TemplateData | ICSTemplateData
): Record<string, unknown> {
	try {
		// First, process template variables in the raw YAML text with YAML-safe replacements
		const processedYamlText = quoteTemplaterYamlScalars(
			processTemplateVariablesForYaml(frontmatterContent, taskData)
		);

		// Then parse the processed YAML
		const parsedFrontmatter = YAML.parse(processedYamlText);

		// Return empty object if parsing failed or result is not an object
		if (typeof parsedFrontmatter !== "object" || parsedFrontmatter === null) {
			tasknotesLogger.warn("Template frontmatter did not parse to a valid object", {
				category: "validation",
				operation: "template-frontmatter-did-not-parse-valid-object",
			});
			return {};
		}

		return parsedFrontmatter;
	} catch (error) {
		tasknotesLogger.error("Error processing template frontmatter:", {
			category: "validation",
			operation: "processing-template-frontmatter",
			error: error,
		});
		return {};
	}
}

/**
 * Process template variables in body content