YAML support for the Go language
Introduction
The yaml package enables Go programs to comfortably encode and decode YAML values. It was developed within Canonical as part of the juju project, and is based on a pure Go port of the well-known libyaml C library to parse and generate YAML data quickly and reliably.
Compatibility
The yaml package is almost compatible with YAML 1.1, including support for anchors, tags, etc. There are still a few missing bits, such as document merging, base-60 floats (huh?), and multi-document unmarshalling. These features are not hard to add, and will be introduced as necessary.
Installation and usage
The import path for the package is gopkg.in/yaml.v1.
To install it, run:
go get gopkg.in/yaml.v1
API documentation
If opened in a browser, the import path itself leads to the API documentation:
API stability
The package API for yaml v1 will remain stable as described in gopkg.in.
License
The yaml package is licensed under the LGPL with an exception that allows it to be linked statically. Please see the LICENSE file for details.
Example
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"gopkg.in/yaml.v1"
)
var data = `
a: Easy!
b:
c: 2
d: [3, 4]
`
type T struct {
A string
B struct{C int; D []int ",flow"}
}
func main() {
t := T{}
err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(data), &t)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("error: %v", err)
}
fmt.Printf("--- t:\n%v\n\n", t)
d, err := yaml.Marshal(&t)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("error: %v", err)
}
fmt.Printf("--- t dump:\n%s\n\n", string(d))
m := make(map[interface{}]interface{})
err = yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(data), &m)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("error: %v", err)
}
fmt.Printf("--- m:\n%v\n\n", m)
d, err = yaml.Marshal(&m)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("error: %v", err)
}
fmt.Printf("--- m dump:\n%s\n\n", string(d))
}
This example will generate the following output:
--- t:
{Easy! {2 [3 4]}}
--- t dump:
a: Easy!
b:
c: 2
d: [3, 4]
--- m:
map[a:Easy! b:map[c:2 d:[3 4]]]
--- m dump:
a: Easy!
b:
c: 2
d:
- 3
- 4