Re: YAML parser

Actually, I begun one a year or two or three ago - time flies - but since I'm not a proper C-programmer, and in this case, neither a proper cmod-programmer, I never finished it. 

I've from time to time thought of finishing it but I've never really hade a dire need to, and I've been busy with other stuff, so it's been lingering for quite a while.

I actually think I had the parser and the scanner covered, but then I realised they're pretty much the same, so I wanted a base cmod class that the parser and scanner classes could inherit. But I never solved that stuff in cmod, since I'm a newbie at that kind of thing, and then I got other  stuff occuping my interest and that's where it's at!

From my point of wiew an experienced Pike core developer would create a Pike wrapper for YAML in a couple of hours. As I said I'm not an experienced C-programmer, but YAML is a pure C-library with virtually no dependencies, and isn't too hard to comprehend even for an inexperienced C-programmer as my self, so the objective here is pretty much a thin CMOD-wrapper around the YAML library (I'd guess)

But of course, even I understand there's a differece between having an implementation that solves most use cases and an implementation that covers the entire YAML library. 

In anyway, here's a link to my Github repo with the infant start of an YAML module: https://github.com/poppa/pike-cmod/tree/master/Public_Parser_Yaml

As it is now, I think it compiles, but actually doesn't do anything. The "static" module methods should work, like Public.Parser.YAML.version() and alike, but that really doesn't solve any real world problems does it ;)

Anywho! I had put this stuff in the "maybe some day, or maybe never" pile but since it came up, I wouldn't mind having a wrestle with it again. And if someone else would like to have a go at it I wouldn't have anything against it.

# Pontus
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> 30 sep 2014 kl. 23:45 skrev Tor Edvardsson @ Pike importm�te f�r mailinglistan <[email protected]>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does it exist any YAML parser for pike? I search around and could not find anything.
> 
> If I need to write my own please please point me to something similar that alreay exists in pike. 
> 
> An alternative would be to use an existing YAML parser that spits out JSON and import that into pike.
> 
> / Tor Edvardsson
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