Meta method results differ

[MEHColeman]

What happened?

While trying out some stuff, I noticed that the meta method doesn't seem to work correctly for me when running through an array of links (generated by outlinks), c.f. a single link:

To set up the test, I created some outlinks:

[[Proxmox]]
[[Pry]]
[[PopOS]]
[Ceph](Ceph)
[[Ruby's Self|self]]

In this example the PopOS page doesn't currently exist, all the other ones do.

The meta().path method works as expected. = map(this.file.outlinks, (x) => meta(x).path) #=> MOCs/Proxmox.md, Knowledge/Pry.md, PopOS, MOCs/Ceph.md, Knowledge/Ruby's Self.md

However, the meta().display method didn't work with an explictlyly named link (I expected [[Ruby's Self|self]] to show self, but it just returned -). I'm not sure why.

= map(this.file.outlinks, (x) => meta(x).display) #=> -, -, -, -, -

I double checked with = meta([[Ruby's Self|self]]).display #=> self

That worked fine.

DQL

= map(this.file.outlinks, (x) => meta(x).display)

JS

No response

Dataview Version

0.5.36

Obsidian Version

0.14.15

OS

MacOS

[AB1908]

Good catch. Can repro.

[blacksmithgu]

This is because file.outlinks and file.inlinks strip duplicates and display names on links - since you can link to the same page a bunch of times and name it different things.

There is a new file.links variable incoming which just literally preserves every link in a page + it's display soon.