Using load-metadata

lib/index.js

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ var extend = require('extend');
 var Matcher = require('minimatch').Minimatch;
 var unique = require('uniq');
 var read = require('fs').readFileSync;
-var yaml = require('yaml-js');
+var loadMetadata = require('load-metadata').sync;
 
 /**
  * Expose `plugin`.
@@ -100,16 +100,9 @@ function plugin(opts){
       debug('adding metadata: %s', key);
       var settings = opts[key];
       var col = metadata[key];
-      var fileName = settings.metadata;
-      if (!fileName) return;
-      if (typeof fileName === 'string') {
-        var data = read(fileName, 'utf-8');
-        var ext = fileName.substr(fileName.lastIndexOf('.') + 1);
-        col.metadata = ext === 'json' ? JSON.parse(data) : yaml.load(data);
-      }
-      else {
-        col.metadata = settings.metadata;
-      }
+      col.metadata = (typeof settings.metadata === 'string') ?
+        loadMetadata(settings.metadata) :
+        settings.metadata;
     });
 
     /**

package.json

@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@
     "extend": "~1.2.1",
     "minimatch": "^0.2.14",
     "uniq": "0.0.2",
-    "yaml-js": "0.0.7"
+    "load-metadata": "0.0.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "metalsmith": "0.x",
     "mocha": "1.x"
   }
-}
+}