SWI-Prolog YAML library
Jan Wielemaker
VU University Amsterdam
CWI, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
E-mail:
J.Wielemaker@vu.nl
Abstract
This package reads and writes
YAML documents from and to SWI-Prolog streams, files and strings. It is
based on
libyaml. This
C library is being used by several languages. Using this C library
provides good performance, and interoperability with YALM infrastructure
used by other systems.
This module parses YAML serialized data into a Prolog term with
structure that is compatible with the JSON library. This library is a
wrapper around the C library libyaml
. This library forms
the basis of the YAML support in several languages and thus guarantees
compatibility of our YAML support with other languages.
- [det]yaml_read(+Input,
-DOM)
- Parse Input to a YAML DOM. The DOM
representation uses the following mapping:
- A YAML sequence is mapped to a Prolog List.
- A YAML mapping is mapped to a Prolog dict.
- Untagged scalars follow the implicit tag rules defined by
YAML, providing numbers (int, float and special floats),
null
and the booleans true
and false
.
Other untagged values are returned as a Prolog string. Tagged values are
returned as tag(Tag, String)
which is processed by
yalm_tagged/3. This internal predicate
calls the user hook
yaml:tagged/3 with the same arguments and,
if the hook fails, provides the following defaults:
!!binary
converts the Base64 to a string of bytes.
!!str
explicitly keeps a string
!!null
translates "null" to null
!!bool
translates to true
and false
!!int
translates to an integer
!!float
translates to a float
- Anything else is returned as
tag(Tag, String)
Input | is one of (1) a stream, (2) a term string(Data)
or (3) a file name. |
- bug
- YAML defines that floats do not require a digit after the decimal dot.
We use the Prolog parser which does require the decimal dot to be
followed by at least one digit. Because the YAML spec intends to match
JSON which does require a digit, we ignore this incompatibility,
expecting it will be addressed in the next YAML version.
- [det]yaml_write(+Out:stream,
+DOM)
- [det]yaml_write(+Out:stream,
+DOM, +Options)
- Emit a YAML DOM object as a serialized YAML document to the
stream
Out. Options processed are:
- canonical(+Boolean)
- Use canonical representation. Default is
false
.
- unicode(+Boolean)
- Use unicode Default is
true
.
- implicit(+Boolean)
- Use implicit or explicit representation. Currently only affects the
opening and closing the document. Default is
true
. Use false
for embedded documents.
- factorize(+Boolean)
- If
true
, minimize the term by factoring out common
structures and use &anchor
and *anchor
.
Factorization is always used if DOM is a cyclic term.
- [semidet,multifile]tagged(+Tag,
?String, ?Value)
- Hook that allows convering
!!tag
values to be decoded or
encoded.
- ?
- tagged/3
- yaml_read/2
- yaml_write/2
- yaml_write/3