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From: Nate Silva <nate@natesilva.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 15:19:19 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix: allow publish property to be a string (ExplicitPublish)
 (#667)
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* fix: allow publish property to be a string (ExplicitPublish)

Previously, the ExplicitPublish filter would publish if the `publish`
property was truthy.

The filter expects the `publish` property to be a boolean:

```
---
publish: true
---
```

However, Obsidian only shows the above if you are viewing a page in
“Source” mode.

If you are not in Source view, and you choose Three Dots Menu (...),
“Add file property”, you will get a string, not a boolean. It seems
likely that many users will do this and get:

```
publish: "true"
```

Notice that `"true"` is a string, not the boolean value `true`. If the
user changes this to `"false"`, the page will still be published:

```
publish: "false"
```

That is because the string value `"false"` is truthy.

This PR does the following:

- Allows the `publish` property to be either a boolean or a string.
- If it’s a string, it’s considered `true` if the string is `"true"`
  (not case-sensitive; it will also work if it is `"True"`, `"TRUE"`,
  etc.)
- Guarantees that the returned value from `shouldPublish` is a `boolean`
  -- previously it could be any truthy value even though it was cast to
  `boolean`

* style: use double-quotes everywhere

* style: format according to project style guide
---
 quartz/plugins/filters/explicit.ts | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/quartz/plugins/filters/explicit.ts b/quartz/plugins/filters/explicit.ts
index 30f0b37..48f92bd 100644
--- a/quartz/plugins/filters/explicit.ts
+++ b/quartz/plugins/filters/explicit.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ import { QuartzFilterPlugin } from "../types"
 export const ExplicitPublish: QuartzFilterPlugin = () => ({
   name: "ExplicitPublish",
   shouldPublish(_ctx, [_tree, vfile]) {
-    const publishFlag: boolean = vfile.data?.frontmatter?.publish ?? false
+    const publishProperty = vfile.data?.frontmatter?.publish ?? false
+    const publishFlag =
+      typeof publishProperty === "string"
+        ? publishProperty.toLowerCase() === "true"
+        : Boolean(publishProperty)
     return publishFlag
   },
 })