78 cannot replace variables with values of type map from another class sometimes

data.go

@@ -82,6 +82,16 @@ func (d Data) GetPath(path ...interface{}) (tree interface{}, err error) {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("key not found: %v", el)
 			}
 
+		case map[string]interface{}:
+			key, ok := el.(string)
+			if !ok {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("unexpected string key in map[string]interface '%T' at index %d", el, i)
+			}
+			tree, ok = node[key]
+			if !ok {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("key not found: %v", el)
+			}
+
 		case map[interface{}]interface{}:
 			var ok bool
 			tree, ok = node[el]
@@ -154,6 +164,13 @@ func (d *Data) SetPath(value interface{}, path ...interface{}) (err error) {
 		}
 		node[key] = value
 
+	case map[string]interface{}:
+		key, ok := element.(string)
+		if !ok {
+			return fmt.Errorf("unexpected string key in map[string]interface '%T' at index %d", element, i)
+		}
+		node[key] = value
+
 	case []interface{}:
 		index, ok := element.(int)
 		if !ok {
@@ -228,7 +245,6 @@ func (d Data) FindValues(valueFunc FindValueFunc, target *[]interface{}) (err er
 
 	var walk func(reflect.Value, []interface{}) error
 	walk = func(v reflect.Value, path []interface{}) error {
-
 		// fix indirects through pointers and interfaces
 		for v.Kind() == reflect.Ptr || v.Kind() == reflect.Interface {
 			v = v.Elem()

variable.go

@@ -186,9 +186,7 @@ func ReplaceVariables(data Data, classFiles []*Class, predefinedVariables map[st
 		}
 
 		// replace variable in Data
-		data.SetPath(sourceValue, variable.Identifier...)
-
-		return nil
+		return data.SetPath(sourceValue, variable.Identifier...)
 	}
 
 	// Replace variables in an undefined amount of iterations.
@@ -226,84 +224,6 @@ func ReplaceVariables(data Data, classFiles []*Class, predefinedVariables map[st
 	return nil
 }
 
-func replaceVariable(data Data, variable Variable, classFiles []*Class, predefinedVariables map[string]interface{}) (err error) {
-	isPredefinedVariable := func(variable Variable) bool {
-		for name := range predefinedVariables {
-			if strings.EqualFold(variable.Name, name) {
-				return true
-			}
-		}
-		return false
-	}
-
-	var targetValue interface{}
-	if isPredefinedVariable(variable) {
-		targetValue = predefinedVariables[variable.Name]
-		return nil
-	} else {
-		// targetValue is the value on which the variable points to.
-		// This is the value we need to replace the variable with
-		targetValue, err = data.GetPath(variable.NameAsIdentifier()...)
-		if err != nil {
-
-			// for any other error than a 'key not found' there is nothing we can do
-			if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "key not found") {
-				return fmt.Errorf("reference to invalid variable '%s': %w", variable.FullName(), err)
-			}
-
-			// Local variable handling
-			//
-			// at this point we have failed to resolve the variable using 'absolute' paths
-			// but the variable may be only locally defined which means we need to change the lookup path.
-			// We iterate over all classes and attempt to resolve the variable within that limited scope.
-			for i, class := range classFiles {
-
-				// if the value to which the variable points is valid inside the class scope, we just need to add the class identifier
-				// if the combination works this means we have found ourselves a local variable and we can set the targetValue
-				fullPath := []interface{}{}
-				fullPath = append(fullPath, class.NameAsIdentifier()...)
-
-				// edge case: the class root key is 'foo', and the variable used references it like ${foo:bar:baz}
-				// this would result in the full path being 'foo foo bar baz', hence we need to strip the class name from the variable reference.
-				if strings.EqualFold(class.RootKey(), variable.NameAsIdentifier()[0].(string)) {
-					fullPath = append(fullPath, variable.NameAsIdentifier()[1:]...)
-				} else {
-					// default case: the class root key is not used in the variable, we can add the full variable identifier
-					fullPath = append(fullPath, variable.NameAsIdentifier()...)
-				}
-
-				targetValue, err = data.GetPath(fullPath...)
-
-				// as long as not all classes have been checked, we cannot be sure that the variable is undefined (aka. key not found error)
-				if targetValue == nil &&
-					i < len(classFiles) &&
-					strings.Contains(err.Error(), "key not found") {
-					continue
-				}
-
-				// the local variable is really not defined at this point
-				if err != nil {
-					return fmt.Errorf("reference to invalid variable '%s': %w", variable.FullName(), err)
-				}
-
-				break
-			}
-		}
-	}
-
-	// sourceValue is the value where the variable is located. It needs to be replaced with the 'targetValue'
-	sourceValue, err := data.GetPath(variable.Identifier...)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	// Replace the full variable name (${variable}) with the targetValue
-	sourceValue = strings.ReplaceAll(fmt.Sprint(sourceValue), variable.FullName(), fmt.Sprint(targetValue))
-	data.SetPath(sourceValue, variable.Identifier...)
-
-	return nil
-}
-
 // variableFindValueFunc implements the [FindValueFunc] and searches for variables inside [Data].
 // Variables are extracted by matching the values to the [variableRegex].
 // All found variables are initialized and added to the output.