hugolib: Fix error handling for JSON front matter

Fixes #3610

diff --git a/hugolib/page.go b/hugolib/page.go
index d4aca37a4c7c45f5e8b1ab51b84a5fb2ce6209bb..cf0a2144c5a42eadd3f56bc3eab42d2f02a2f805 100644 (file)
--- a/hugolib/page.go
+++ b/hugolib/page.go
@@ -1318,10 +1318,11 @@ func (p *Page) parse(reader io.Reader) error {
        p.lang = p.Source.File.Lang()
 
        meta, err := psr.Metadata()
+       if err != nil {
+               return fmt.Errorf("failed to parse page metadata for %q: %s", p.File.Path(), err)
+       }
+
        if meta != nil {
-               if err != nil {
-                       return fmt.Errorf("failed to parse page metadata for %s: %s", p.File.Path(), err)
-               }
                if err = p.update(meta); err != nil {
                        return err
                }