[erlang-questions] [ANN] yaml loader

[Daniel Goertzen]

I'm pleased to announce an application for loading YAML files into
Erlang. This implementation supports:

- Detailed errors on yaml load failures (line, column, reason)
- Anchors and aliases
- Merge tags
- The tag !atom for explicitely tagging values as atoms.
- An implicit_atoms mode to interpret values that look atom-ish as atoms.
- Customizable schemas via callback modules.
- Loading only, but perhaps it will also emit YAML in the future.

This application embeds the C yaml parser "libyaml" which is compiled as a NIF.

Details at https://github.com/goertzenator/yaml

For those unfamiliar with YAML, it is similar to JSON with a strong
focus on human readability and writeability. If you need to type in
lots of structured data, YAML is a decent choice.


Dan.
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[Tim McNamara]

This is really great. Having an Erlang implementation is excellent.
Strongly suggest changing the project name from "yaml" though.

YAML does have a few (IMO) advantages over JSON apart from readability:

- comment syntax
- named entities
- supports streaming more easily*

* Although it looks like yaml:load_file/1 loads everything into memory.

[Daniel Goertzen]

You're right, that's a terrible name for this project. I wanted the
main module to be "yaml" but that doesn't mean the application or
project has to be called that. This project is now at:

https://github.com/goertzenator/goyaml

Apologies for those who already watched or forked.

Regarding streaming, libyaml forced me to go with an all-at-once
approach. Erlang native processes would help overcome this, as would
a parser written in Erlang.

Dan.

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[Gleb Peregud]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Daniel Goertzen
<da...@networkintegritysystems.com> wrote:
> You're right, that's a terrible name for this project.  This project is now at:
>
> https://github.com/goertzenator/goyaml

I'm afraid people using Go programming language will be stumbling upon
your project now :)

[Michael Turner]

Then ... "yamerl"?

-michael turner

[Max Bourinov]

Eyaml or erlyaml?

Sent from my iPhone

[Tilman Holschuh]

yamler

[André Graf]

+1 for yamler

[Zabrane Mickael]

+1 yamler


Regards,
Zabrane

[Daniel Goertzen]

Lol, I love it! It is done...

https://github.com/goertzenator/yamler

Thanks for the input,
Dan.