Just the other day I had a list show up as [“a”, “b”, “c”, “d”, “e”, false, “g”, “h”, “i”].
The issue was that, without me being overly aware of it, the data was going through a data -> yaml -> data step.
Yes, the data -> yaml filter was broken for not putting general strings in quotes. But IMO the yaml design invites these odd “rare” bugs.
I used to like yaml, but was happy to see Toml taking the niche of human-readable-JSON, but felt the format for nested key-value was a weird choice. However, I’ve always felt we could just have extended JSON a bit (allow line breaks, comments, if the outermost data type is an object, the curly brackets may be omitted).
Using YAML as an intermediate format between steps of a process is a mistake. I love YAML for configuration but I’d never use it for machine-to-machine anything. If the tool you’re feeding data to requires YAML as input, just give it JSON. All JSON is valid YAML.
Edit: I realize you weren’t the one who made that decision. I’m saying the problem isn’t YAML, the problem is someone using YAML inappropriately.
Just the other day I had a list show up as [“a”, “b”, “c”, “d”, “e”, false, “g”, “h”, “i”].
The issue was that, without me being overly aware of it, the data was going through a data -> yaml -> data step.
Yes, the data -> yaml filter was broken for not putting general strings in quotes. But IMO the yaml design invites these odd “rare” bugs.
I used to like yaml, but was happy to see Toml taking the niche of human-readable-JSON, but felt the format for nested key-value was a weird choice. However, I’ve always felt we could just have extended JSON a bit (allow line breaks, comments, if the outermost data type is an object, the curly brackets may be omitted).
Using YAML as an intermediate format between steps of a process is a mistake. I love YAML for configuration but I’d never use it for machine-to-machine anything. If the tool you’re feeding data to requires YAML as input, just give it JSON. All JSON is valid YAML.
Edit: I realize you weren’t the one who made that decision. I’m saying the problem isn’t YAML, the problem is someone using YAML inappropriately.