Sketch Crash on Populate With JSON when using SVG about data-populator HOT 4 CLOSED

I believe I have figured out what I am doing wrong. Looking at only one demo, I assumed that SVGs were treated the same as any other image type and, as such, would use the same placeholder. However, looking through the code for populate(), I found that it looks for specific iconPlaceholders with the pattern {{*}}. Which tells me that I probably need double curly brackets on my placeholders for SVGs. I'll make that change later this afternoon and see how it goes.

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Using the example from demo.sketch [the icon on a ListItem in the "contacts" example] definitely behaved differently, but Sketch still crashed. I could see the rows get generated. I could see the icon placeholders but the actual SVG icon did not load into them. The view appeared to zoom out, almost as if I'd hit Command + 1. And then Sketch crashed. For the moment, I'm just going to use PNG versions of the icons and generate SVG assets for development.

If it helps, I am running Sketch 3.6.1 (26313) on El Capitan 10.11.3.

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Yeah, it's double brackets. But also, the SVG stuff is a bit shaky, since loading external SVGs is more complex than loading an image.

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That makes sense. For our purposes, it's working great just using PNG files. Then we export icons as SVG for the dev team. This has already saved hours as design iteration progresses. Being able to update a single object and then re-populate a layout [in my case, a table full of rows of data] has been a very good thing.

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