Template stopped

A template stopped while Statac built a page with it, for a reason other than a missing value. The message says why, such as adding a number to text, a filter handed something it can’t work on, a snippet that calls itself, or a !!binary value whose bytes aren’t text shown on the page, and names the page being built.

What you’ll see

error  Template stopped: `absolute` needs the site's `url`
  Add `url:` to `statac.yaml`.
  More: https://statac.dev/e/template-stopped/

In the terminal the message also names the file and line where there is one, and marks the exact text.

Why Statac stops

The template can’t finish the page, and publishing part of it would leave a broken page in the site.

How to fix it

Look at the place the caret points to, on the page the message names. Common causes:

• absolute on a site whose statac.yaml doesn’t give the site’s own address, which it needs to make a full one.
• date or moment handed something that isn’t a date.
• headline handed something that isn’t a page, such as a title.
• url handed something that isn’t an address from the top of the site, starting with one /.
• A snippet that calls a snippet that calls it back. Take the call out of one of them.
• A loop that never ends, or a loop inside a loop over long lists, which took all the steps Statac lets one page take. The message names the layout the page is built with; the caret points to where the steps ran out, which may be in a snippet the layout calls.

Example

In templates/post.html:

<p>{{ page.title | date }}</p>

date works on a date:

<p>{{ page.date | date }}</p>

Its name

Name	template-stopped
In the terminal	statac explain template-stopped
To stop showing it	It stops the build, so it can't be quietened.