Named colours don't work as map keys

[mikeebee]

Hi all,

I'm trying to implement a colour palette function seen in this article here.

http://erskinedesign.com/blog/friendlier-colour-names-sass-maps/

This is the resulting code

// config
$_color-base-grey: rgb(229,231,234);
$palettes: (
    purple: (
        base:   rgb(42,40,80),
        light:  rgb(51,46,140),
        dark:   rgb(40,38,65)
    ),
    grey: (
        base:  $_color-base-grey,
        light: lighten($_color-base-grey, 10%),
        dark: darken($_color-base-grey, 10%)
    )
);

// Palette function,
@function palette($palette, $tone: 'base') {
    @return map-get(map-get($palettes, $palette), $tone);
}


// in module styles
a {
    color: palette(purple);
    &:hover {
        color: palette(purple, light);
    }
}

All signs seem to point to this working but I get this error.

Warning: /Users/xxx/xxx//styles.scss:35: argument `$map` of `map-get($map, $key)` must be a map

I'm using Grunt Sass version - 0.16.1

Any ideas?

Many thanks

[am11]

Confirmed! I get the following (JSON) error from libsass, with the new API implemented in node-sass (unreleased):

{
        "status": 1,
        "path": "c:/temp/foo3.scss",
        "line": 18,
        "column": 13,
        "message": "argument `$map` of `map-get($map, $key)` must be a map\nBacktrace:\n\tc:/temp/foo3.scss:18, in function `map-get`\n\tc:/temp/foo3.scss:18, in function `palette`\n\tc:/temp/foo3.scss:24"
}

@mgreter, separately; in message of JSON, the filename and line number shouldn't be repeated. :)

[xzyfer]

I dug into this and it appeared to be because map-get($palettes, $palette) is returning null. It seems as though map-get incorrectly distinguishes between quoted and unquoted string keys.

[mgntrn]

Any solution yet?

[xzyfer]

I've added this to the 3.0.3 milestone it should make it into the next release.

[xzyfer]

It appears my initial thoughts were wrong. The issue is because the map key is a color name. Libsass has some issues when it comes to parsing strings that are color names i.e. #558

Reduced case: http://sassmeister.com/gist/d2be1def3619bd6c3a54

[Snugug]

As a heads up, it looks like the user may be running in to the issue related to sass/sass#363 in that colors as map keys aren't strings, but colors.

[xzyfer]

I believe this is somewhat true. I think the map key is being treated as a colour rather than a string, although I'm not sure why this is a problem.

It's worth noting the reduced test case works fine on Ruby sass.

[xzyfer]

The issue is that we're treat purple in the map key as a string and purple in the function call as a color. When we call map-get we're asking for the value associated with the color purple, but it's stored under the string purple. Theses two things are not equivalent - http://sassmeister.com/gist/77ae29d46ebecd0823ed

I've got a fix I'll ship in a couple hours.