How to update yaml files?

[ur]

There are few yaml files which I need to update the entries by going through the portions of it based on its heading.

One option I thought is to keep place holders but that same entry there in multiple sections, need to choose based on the section head in yaml.

Is there any UDF already available to handle yaml files?

Didn't find any in the search results.

Can anyone please suggest.

[Jos]

What would you suggest being here this long?

[ur]

I can find only JSON UDF in the questions asking for YAML in the search results.

 

[Jos]

I do not see any relation with YAML files and JSON other then when a field value has a JSON content. 

[ur]

Yeah, but that is the reply in the similar question 
 

 

[Jos]

That is a request for a YAML UDF where somebody points to the JSON UDF as base to start with but there is nobody that did the actual work!

Nice challenge for you maybe?  
... or if the change is "simple" you can use regex logic.

 

Edited October 21, 2021 by Jos

[philpw99]

In the past few weeks I have been searching up and down, left and right for a way to implement yaml in a upcoming program of mine. Of course I can use JSON and be done with it, but the beauty of simplicity of YAML was always in my mind. For some reason I cannot just let it go.

There are tons of resources about YAML. A lot of examples. Python, Javascript, Java, C++, PHP ... They all support it. It gives me a lot of doubts why no one here can make a UDF about it.

That's until I start to make an UDF myself, that I started to understand why. YAML looks easy, but it's a nightmare for programmers. There are many many things need to consider. Even a trimmed down limited implementation of YAML is pretty tough.

I don't want to go through all the failures I suffered chasing this, but now I finally found quite a possible solution for this:

https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

According to them, "yq is a portable command-line YAML processor". You can pipe the YAML string in and pipe the decoded JSON out. Or you can ask it to load a file.

You can use it to output properties, JSON, or CSV / TSV, and you can update the YAML file with comments intact.

The release file is not big. X64 is 8mb and x86 is 7.5mb. I wish there are an easy DLL file that can do the same thing, but after all the searches, I found none. When other languages enjoy built-in support of YAML, I think AutoIt, for now, has to go with the "yq -> JSON -> Objects" route.