| JS-YAML - YAML 1.2 parser / writer for JavaScript |
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| __[Online Demo](http://nodeca.github.com/js-yaml/)__ |
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| This is an implementation of [YAML](http://yaml.org/), a human-friendly data |
| serialization language. Started as [PyYAML](http://pyyaml.org/) port, it was |
| completely rewritten from scratch. Now it's very fast, and supports 1.2 spec. |
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| Installation |
| ------------ |
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| ### YAML module for node.js |
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| ``` |
| npm install js-yaml |
| ``` |
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| ### CLI executable |
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| If you want to inspect your YAML files from CLI, install js-yaml globally: |
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| ``` |
| npm install -g js-yaml |
| ``` |
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| #### Usage |
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| ``` |
| usage: js-yaml [-h] [-v] [-c] [-t] file |
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| Positional arguments: |
| file File with YAML document(s) |
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| Optional arguments: |
| -h, --help Show this help message and exit. |
| -v, --version Show program's version number and exit. |
| -c, --compact Display errors in compact mode |
| -t, --trace Show stack trace on error |
| ``` |
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| ### Bundled YAML library for browsers |
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| ``` html |
| <!-- esprima required only for !!js/function --> |
| <script src="esprima.js"></script> |
| <script src="js-yaml.min.js"></script> |
| <script type="text/javascript"> |
| var doc = jsyaml.load('greeting: hello\nname: world'); |
| </script> |
| ``` |
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| Browser support was done mostly for the online demo. If you find any errors - feel |
| free to send pull requests with fixes. Also note, that IE and other old browsers |
| needs [es5-shims](https://github.com/kriskowal/es5-shim) to operate. |
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| Notes: |
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| 1. We have no resources to support browserified version. Don't expect it to be |
| well tested. Don't expect fast fixes if something goes wrong there. |
| 2. `!!js/function` in browser bundle will not work by default. If you really need |
| it - load `esprima` parser first (via amd or directly). |
| 3. `!!bin` in browser will return `Array`, because browsers do not support |
| node.js `Buffer` and adding Buffer shims is completely useless on practice. |
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| API |
| --- |
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| Here we cover the most 'useful' methods. If you need advanced details (creating |
| your own tags), see [wiki](https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/wiki) and |
| [examples](https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/tree/master/examples) for more |
| info. |
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| ``` javascript |
| yaml = require('js-yaml'); |
| fs = require('fs'); |
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| // Get document, or throw exception on error |
| try { |
| var doc = yaml.safeLoad(fs.readFileSync('/home/ixti/example.yml', 'utf8')); |
| console.log(doc); |
| } catch (e) { |
| console.log(e); |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ### safeLoad (string [ , options ]) |
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| **Recommended loading way.** Parses `string` as single YAML document. Returns a JavaScript |
| object or throws `YAMLException` on error. By default, does not support regexps, |
| functions and undefined. This method is safe for untrusted data. |
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| options: |
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| - `filename` _(default: null)_ - string to be used as a file path in |
| error/warning messages. |
| - `onWarning` _(default: null)_ - function to call on warning messages. |
| Loader will call this function with an instance of `YAMLException` for each warning. |
| - `schema` _(default: `DEFAULT_SAFE_SCHEMA`)_ - specifies a schema to use. |
| - `FAILSAFE_SCHEMA` - only strings, arrays and plain objects: |
| http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2802346 |
| - `JSON_SCHEMA` - all JSON-supported types: |
| http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2803231 |
| - `CORE_SCHEMA` - same as `JSON_SCHEMA`: |
| http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2804923 |
| - `DEFAULT_SAFE_SCHEMA` - all supported YAML types, without unsafe ones |
| (`!!js/undefined`, `!!js/regexp` and `!!js/function`): |
| http://yaml.org/type/ |
| - `DEFAULT_FULL_SCHEMA` - all supported YAML types. |
| - `json` _(default: false)_ - compatibility with JSON.parse behaviour. If true, then duplicate keys in a mapping will override values rather than throwing an error. |
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| NOTE: This function **does not** understand multi-document sources, it throws |
| exception on those. |
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| NOTE: JS-YAML **does not** support schema-specific tag resolution restrictions. |
| So, the JSON schema is not as strictly defined in the YAML specification. |
| It allows numbers in any notation, use `Null` and `NULL` as `null`, etc. |
| The core schema also has no such restrictions. It allows binary notation for integers. |
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| ### load (string [ , options ]) |
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| **Use with care with untrusted sources**. The same as `safeLoad()` but uses |
| `DEFAULT_FULL_SCHEMA` by default - adds some JavaScript-specific types: |
| `!!js/function`, `!!js/regexp` and `!!js/undefined`. For untrusted sources, you |
| must additionally validate object structure to avoid injections: |
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| ``` javascript |
| var untrusted_code = '"toString": !<tag:yaml.org,2002:js/function> "function (){very_evil_thing();}"'; |
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| // I'm just converting that string, what could possibly go wrong? |
| require('js-yaml').load(untrusted_code) + '' |
| ``` |
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| ### safeLoadAll (string [, iterator] [, options ]) |
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| Same as `safeLoad()`, but understands multi-document sources. Applies |
| `iterator` to each document if specified, or returns array of documents. |
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| ``` javascript |
| var yaml = require('js-yaml'); |
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| yaml.safeLoadAll(data, function (doc) { |
| console.log(doc); |
| }); |
| ``` |
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| ### loadAll (string [, iterator] [ , options ]) |
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| Same as `safeLoadAll()` but uses `DEFAULT_FULL_SCHEMA` by default. |
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| ### safeDump (object [ , options ]) |
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| Serializes `object` as a YAML document. Uses `DEFAULT_SAFE_SCHEMA`, so it will |
| throw an exception if you try to dump regexps or functions. However, you can |
| disable exceptions by setting the `skipInvalid` option to `true`. |
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| options: |
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| - `indent` _(default: 2)_ - indentation width to use (in spaces). |
| - `noArrayIndent` _(default: false)_ - when true, will not add an indentation level to array elements |
| - `skipInvalid` _(default: false)_ - do not throw on invalid types (like function |
| in the safe schema) and skip pairs and single values with such types. |
| - `flowLevel` (default: -1) - specifies level of nesting, when to switch from |
| block to flow style for collections. -1 means block style everwhere |
| - `styles` - "tag" => "style" map. Each tag may have own set of styles. |
| - `schema` _(default: `DEFAULT_SAFE_SCHEMA`)_ specifies a schema to use. |
| - `sortKeys` _(default: `false`)_ - if `true`, sort keys when dumping YAML. If a |
| function, use the function to sort the keys. |
| - `lineWidth` _(default: `80`)_ - set max line width. |
| - `noRefs` _(default: `false`)_ - if `true`, don't convert duplicate objects into references |
| - `noCompatMode` _(default: `false`)_ - if `true` don't try to be compatible with older |
| yaml versions. Currently: don't quote "yes", "no" and so on, as required for YAML 1.1 |
| - `condenseFlow` _(default: `false`)_ - if `true` flow sequences will be condensed, omitting the space between `a, b`. Eg. `'[a,b]'`, and omitting the space between `key: value` and quoting the key. Eg. `'{"a":b}'` Can be useful when using yaml for pretty URL query params as spaces are %-encoded. |
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| The following table show availlable styles (e.g. "canonical", |
| "binary"...) available for each tag (.e.g. !!null, !!int ...). Yaml |
| output is shown on the right side after `=>` (default setting) or `->`: |
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| ``` none |
| !!null |
| "canonical" -> "~" |
| "lowercase" => "null" |
| "uppercase" -> "NULL" |
| "camelcase" -> "Null" |
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| !!int |
| "binary" -> "0b1", "0b101010", "0b1110001111010" |
| "octal" -> "01", "052", "016172" |
| "decimal" => "1", "42", "7290" |
| "hexadecimal" -> "0x1", "0x2A", "0x1C7A" |
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| !!bool |
| "lowercase" => "true", "false" |
| "uppercase" -> "TRUE", "FALSE" |
| "camelcase" -> "True", "False" |
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| !!float |
| "lowercase" => ".nan", '.inf' |
| "uppercase" -> ".NAN", '.INF' |
| "camelcase" -> ".NaN", '.Inf' |
| ``` |
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| Example: |
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| ``` javascript |
| safeDump (object, { |
| 'styles': { |
| '!!null': 'canonical' // dump null as ~ |
| }, |
| 'sortKeys': true // sort object keys |
| }); |
| ``` |
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| ### dump (object [ , options ]) |
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| Same as `safeDump()` but without limits (uses `DEFAULT_FULL_SCHEMA` by default). |
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| Supported YAML types |
| -------------------- |
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| The list of standard YAML tags and corresponding JavaScipt types. See also |
| [YAML tag discussion](http://pyyaml.org/wiki/YAMLTagDiscussion) and |
| [YAML types repository](http://yaml.org/type/). |
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| ``` |
| !!null '' # null |
| !!bool 'yes' # bool |
| !!int '3...' # number |
| !!float '3.14...' # number |
| !!binary '...base64...' # buffer |
| !!timestamp 'YYYY-...' # date |
| !!omap [ ... ] # array of key-value pairs |
| !!pairs [ ... ] # array or array pairs |
| !!set { ... } # array of objects with given keys and null values |
| !!str '...' # string |
| !!seq [ ... ] # array |
| !!map { ... } # object |
| ``` |
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| **JavaScript-specific tags** |
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| ``` |
| !!js/regexp /pattern/gim # RegExp |
| !!js/undefined '' # Undefined |
| !!js/function 'function () {...}' # Function |
| ``` |
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| Caveats |
| ------- |
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| Note, that you use arrays or objects as key in JS-YAML. JS does not allow objects |
| or arrays as keys, and stringifies (by calling `toString()` method) them at the |
| moment of adding them. |
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| ``` yaml |
| --- |
| ? [ foo, bar ] |
| : - baz |
| ? { foo: bar } |
| : - baz |
| - baz |
| ``` |
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| ``` javascript |
| { "foo,bar": ["baz"], "[object Object]": ["baz", "baz"] } |
| ``` |
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| Also, reading of properties on implicit block mapping keys is not supported yet. |
| So, the following YAML document cannot be loaded. |
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| ``` yaml |
| &anchor foo: |
| foo: bar |
| *anchor: duplicate key |
| baz: bat |
| *anchor: duplicate key |
| ``` |
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| Breaking changes in 2.x.x -> 3.x.x |
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| If you have not used __custom__ tags or loader classes and not loaded yaml |
| files via `require()`, no changes are needed. Just upgrade the library. |
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| Otherwise, you should: |
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| 1. Replace all occurrences of `require('xxxx.yml')` by `fs.readFileSync()` + |
| `yaml.safeLoad()`. |
| 2. rewrite your custom tags constructors and custom loader |
| classes, to conform the new API. See |
| [examples](https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/tree/master/examples) and |
| [wiki](https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/wiki) for details. |
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| License |
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| View the [LICENSE](https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/blob/master/LICENSE) file |
| (MIT). |