partial support for map based selector conversion #386
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fixes #385
Turns out the selector parsing did not cover cases where maps have selectors.
Given this meta.yml example:
The existing code produces:
After this pull request you will get:
This example is not fully valid yaml either, but I throw a helpful error.
To fully fix the problem you would need to walk every map and make sure that if any of the map entries have a selector then every map entry is converted to a list entry. I think at that point you're halfway to writing a full yaml parser instead of a preprocessor.
A fully fixed version would produce something like:
A real world example:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/conda-forge/cmdstan-feedstock/main/recipe/meta.yaml