Ensure _DISCARDED is not being cached. Fix #2825

pelican/readers.py

@@ -571,8 +571,9 @@ def read_file(self, base_path, path, content_class=Page, fmt=None,
         content, reader_metadata = self.get_cached_data(path, (None, None))
         if content is None:
             content, reader_metadata = reader.read(path)
+            reader_metadata = _filter_discardable_metadata(reader_metadata)
             self.cache_data(path, (content, reader_metadata))
-        metadata.update(_filter_discardable_metadata(reader_metadata))
+        metadata.update(reader_metadata)
 
         if content:
             # find images with empty alt

pelican/tests/content/article_with_markdown_and_empty_tags.md

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Title: Article with markdown and empty tags
+Tags:
+
+This is some content.

pelican/tests/test_generators.py

@@ -265,6 +265,8 @@ def test_generate_context(self):
             ['This is a super article !', 'published', 'yeah', 'article'],
             ['This is a super article !', 'published', 'Default', 'article'],
             ['Article with an inline SVG', 'published', 'Default', 'article'],
+            ['Article with markdown and empty tags', 'published', 'Default',
+             'article'],
             ['This is an article with category !', 'published', 'yeah',
              'article'],
             ['This is an article with multiple authors!', 'published',
@@ -569,6 +571,7 @@ def test_article_order_by(self):
             'Article title',
             'Article with Nonconformant HTML meta tags',
             'Article with an inline SVG',
+            'Article with markdown and empty tags',
             'Article with markdown and nested summary metadata',
             'Article with markdown and summary metadata multi',
             'Article with markdown and summary metadata single',

pelican/tests/test_readers.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ class ReaderTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def read_file(self, path, **kwargs):
         # Isolate from future API changes to readers.read_file
+
         r = readers.Readers(settings=get_settings(**kwargs))
         return r.read_file(base_path=CONTENT_PATH, path=path)
 
@@ -795,6 +796,23 @@ def test_typogrify_dashes_config(self):
         self.assertEqual(page.content, expected)
         self.assertEqual(page.title, expected_title)
 
+    def test_metadata_has_no_discarded_data(self):
+        md_filename = 'article_with_markdown_and_empty_tags.md'
+
+        r = readers.Readers(cache_name='cache', settings=get_settings(
+            CACHE_CONTENT=True))
+        page = r.read_file(base_path=CONTENT_PATH, path=md_filename)
+
+        __, cached_metadata = r.get_cached_data(
+            _path(md_filename), (None, None))
+
+        expected = {
+            'title': 'Article with markdown and empty tags'
+        }
+        self.assertEqual(cached_metadata, expected)
+        self.assertNotIn('tags', page.metadata)
+        self.assertDictHasSubset(page.metadata, expected)
+
 
 class HTMLReaderTest(ReaderTest):
     def test_article_with_comments(self):