Fix aliases with commas in them.

.gitignore

@@ -2,4 +2,7 @@ node_modules
 .env
 .DS_Store
 undefined
-.vscode
+.vscode
+backups
+Spaces.mdb
+data.json

src/components/ContextView/ContextListView.tsx

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ export const ContextListView = (props: { plugin: MakeMDPlugin }) => {
   const { schema } = useContext(MDBContext);
   const [error, resetError] = useErrorBoundary();
   if (error) console.log(error);
+
   return schema ? (
     schema.type == "flow" ? (
       <FlowListView plugin={props.plugin}></FlowListView>

src/components/ContextView/DataTypeView/DataTypeView.tsx

@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ export const DataTypeView: React.FC<DataTypeViewProps> = (
       ></ContextCell>
     );
   } else if (fieldType.type == "fileprop") {
+
     return <LookUpCell {...viewProps} file={file}></LookUpCell>;
   } else if (fieldType.type == "number") {
     return <NumberCell {...viewProps}></NumberCell>;

src/components/ContextView/MDBContext.tsx

@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ export const MDBProvider: React.FC<
       ) ?? [],
     [tableData, schema, contextTable]
   );
+
   const sortedColumns = useMemo(() => {
     return cols
       .filter(
@@ -342,6 +343,7 @@ export const MDBProvider: React.FC<
     const col = (table == "" ? tableData : contextTable[table])?.cols.find(
       (f) => f.name == column
     );
+
     if (col)
       saveFrontmatterValue(
         props.plugin,

src/dispatch/mdb.ts

@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ export const insertContextColumn = async (
   context: ContextInfo,
   field: MDBField
 ): Promise<void> => {
-  
+
   let tagFileExists = abstractFileAtPathExists(app, context.dbPath);
   if (!tagFileExists) {
     tagFileExists = await createDefaultDB(plugin, context);
@@ -207,7 +207,9 @@ const fileToFM = (afile: TAbstractFile, cols: string[], plugin: MakeMDPlugin) =>
   const fm = frontMatterForFile(file);
   const fmKeys = frontMatterKeys(fm).filter((f) => cols.some((g) => f == g));
   const rows = fmKeys.reduce(
-    (p, c) => ({ ...p, [c]: parseFrontMatter(c, fm[c]) }),
+    (p, c) => {
+      return ({ ...p, [c]: parseFrontMatter(c, fm[c]) })
+    },
     {}
   );
   if (plugin.dataViewAPI()) {
@@ -246,6 +248,7 @@ export const onMetadataChange = async (
   file: TAbstractFile,
   contexts: ContextInfo[]
 ): Promise<void[]> => {
+  // console.log(contexts);
   const promises = contexts.map((context) => {
     return processContextFile(plugin, context, async (mdb, context) => {
       const newDB = {
@@ -327,7 +330,7 @@ export const renameTagInContexts = async ( plugin: MakeMDPlugin,
 export const addFileInContexts = async (plugin: MakeMDPlugin,
   path: string,
   contexts: ContextInfo[]): Promise<void[]> => {
-    
+
     const promises = contexts.map((context) => {
       return processContextFile(plugin, context, async (mdb, context) => {
         const newDB = insertRowsIfUnique(mdb, [{ File: path }]);
@@ -338,7 +341,7 @@ export const addFileInContexts = async (plugin: MakeMDPlugin,
       })
     });
     return Promise.all(promises);
-    
+
 }
 
 export const renameLinkInContexts = async (plugin: MakeMDPlugin,
@@ -406,7 +409,7 @@ export const removeFileInContexts = async (plugin: MakeMDPlugin,
           saveContextToFrontmatter(path, mdb.cols, removeRow, plugin)
         }
         const newDB = removeRowForFile(mdb, path);
-        
+
         if (!_.isEqual(mdb, newDB))
         {
           await saveDB(plugin, context, newDB);}

src/superstate/cacheParsers.ts

@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ export const parseFileContetxs = (file: AFile, tags: string[], contextsCache: Ma
     contexts.push(...tags.filter(t => contextsCache.has(t)))
     if (file.parent != '/')
     contexts.push(file.parent);
-    spaces.forEach(space => 
+    spaces.forEach(space =>
     {
         if (contextsCache.has(spaceContextPathFromName(space))) {
             contexts.push(spaceContextPathFromName(space));
@@ -132,12 +132,12 @@ export const parseMetadata = (file: AFile, settings: MakeMDPluginSettings, conte
     }
     const tags : string[] = [];
     const fileTags : string[] = tagsForCachedMetadata(metadataCache);
-    
+
     if (contextsCache.has(file.parent)) {
         for (const def of contextsCache.get(file.parent).def) {
             if (def.type == 'tag') {
                 tags.push(def.value);
-            } 
+            }
         }
     }
 
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ export const parseMetadata = (file: AFile, settings: MakeMDPluginSettings, conte
     }
     let banner = '';
     if (fm) {
-        
+
         const fmKeys = uniqCaseInsensitive(frontMatterKeys(fm));
         const cols: Record<string, { type: string, name: string }> = fmKeys.reduce((p, c) => ({
             ...p, [c]: {
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ export const parseMetadata = (file: AFile, settings: MakeMDPluginSettings, conte
         }
         if (properties[settings.fmKeyAlias] && settings.spacesUseAlias) {
             name = fm[settings.fmKeyAlias];
+            if (Array.isArray(name)) name = name[0];
         }
     }
     const fileCache = {
@@ -239,8 +240,8 @@ export const parseMetadata = (file: AFile, settings: MakeMDPluginSettings, conte
     let changed = true;
 
     if (oldMetadata && _.isEqual(metadata, oldMetadata)) {
-        
+
         changed = false;
     }
     return {changed, cache: metadata }
-}
+}

src/utils/contexts/mdb.ts

@@ -368,15 +368,15 @@ export const connectContext = async (
   tag: string,
   source: string
 ) => {
-  
+
 };
 
 export const disconnectContext = async (
   plugin: MakeMDPlugin,
   tag: string,
   source: string
 ) => {
-  
+
 };
 
 export const renameSpaceContextFile = async (
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ export const renameSpaceContextFile = async (
           "/" + newSpaceDBPath
       )
     ) {
-      await renameFile(plugin, 
+      await renameFile(plugin,
         getAbstractFileAtPath(app, context.dbPath),
         newSpaceDBPath
       );
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ export const renameSpaceContextFile = async (
         });
       }
     }, app.workspace["rootSplit"]!);
-  
+
 };
 
 
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ export const renameTagContextFile = async (
           ".mdb"
       )
     ) {
-      await renameFile(plugin, 
+      await renameFile(plugin,
         getAbstractFileAtPath(app, context.dbPath),
         tagToTagPath(newTag) + ".mdb"
       );
@@ -454,5 +454,5 @@ export const renameTagContextFile = async (
         });
       }
     }, app.workspace["rootSplit"]!);
-  
+
 };

src/utils/metadata/dv.ts

@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ export async function replaceValues(
   input: string,
   previousItemsCount: number = 0
 ): Promise<void> {
+
   let file: TFile;
   if (fileOrFilePath instanceof TFile) {
     file = fileOrFilePath;
@@ -139,6 +140,7 @@ export async function replaceValues(
   } = frontmatter
     ? frontmatter
     : { position: { start: undefined, end: undefined } };
+
   const newContent = content.map((line, i) => {
     const encodedInput = encodeLink(input);
     let encodedLine = encodeLink(line);

src/utils/metadata/frontmatter/parseFrontMatter.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-import { serializeMultiDisplayString, serializeMultiString } from "utils/serializer";
+import { MULTI_STRING_DELIMITER, serializeMultiDisplayString, serializeMultiString } from "utils/serializer";
 import { detectYAMLType } from "./detectYAMLType";
 
 
 export const parseFrontMatter = (field: string, value: any) => {
-  const YAMLtype = detectYAMLType(value, field);
+  // We need to always treat Aliases as an option-multi field, even if it's a string.
+  const YAMLtype = field === 'aliases' ? 'option-multi' : detectYAMLType(value, field);
   switch (YAMLtype) {
     case "object":
       return JSON.stringify(value);
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ export const parseFrontMatter = (field: string, value: any) => {
     case "option-multi":
     case "link-multi":
       if (typeof value === "string") {
-        return value;
+        return value.split(',').join(MULTI_STRING_DELIMITER);
       }
       return serializeMultiString(value
         .map((v: any) => {