JS-YAML - YAML 1.2 parser / writer for JavaScript
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This is an implementation of [YAML](https://yaml.org/), a human-friendly data
serialization language. Started as [PyYAML](https://pyyaml.org/) port, it was
completely rewritten from scratch. Now it's very fast, and supports 1.2 spec.


Installation
------------

### YAML module for node.js

```
npm install js-yaml
```


### CLI executable

If you want to inspect your YAML files from CLI, install js-yaml globally:

```
npm install -g js-yaml
```

#### Usage

```
usage: js-yaml [-h] [-v] [-c] [-t] file

Positional arguments:
  file           File with YAML document(s)

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
```


API
---

Here we cover the most 'useful' methods. If you need advanced details (creating
your own tags), see [examples](https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/tree/master/examples)
for more info.

``` javascript
const yaml = require('js-yaml');
const fs   = require('fs');

// Get document, or throw exception on error
try {
  const doc = yaml.load(fs.readFileSync('/home/ixti/example.yml', 'utf8'));
  console.log(doc);
} catch (e) {
  console.log(e);
}
```


### load (string [ , options ])

Parses `string` as single YAML document. Returns either a
plain object, a string, a number, `null` or `undefined`, or throws `YAMLException` on error. By default, does
not support regexps, functions and undefined.

options:

- `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_SCHEMA`)_ - specifies a schema to use.
  - `FAILSAFE_SCHEMA` - only strings, arrays and plain objects:
    https://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2802346
  - `JSON_SCHEMA` - all JSON-supported types:
    https://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2803231
  - `CORE_SCHEMA` - same as `JSON_SCHEMA`:
    https://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2804923
  - `DEFAULT_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.
- `maxDepth` _(default: 100)_ - limits nesting depth for collections.
- `maxMergeSeqLength` _(default: 20)_ - limits the number of elements in merge
  (`<<`) sequences.

NOTE: This function **does not** understand multi-document sources, it throws
exception on those.

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.


### loadAll (string [, iterator] [, options ])

Same as `load()`, but understands multi-document sources. Applies
`iterator` to each document if specified, or returns array of documents.

``` javascript
const yaml = require('js-yaml');

yaml.loadAll(data, function (doc) {
  console.log(doc);
});
```


### dump (object [ , options ])

Serializes `object` as a YAML document. Uses `DEFAULT_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`.

options:

- `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_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. Set `-1` for unlimited 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.
- `quotingType` _(`'` or `"`, default: `'`)_ - strings will be quoted using this quoting style. If you specify single quotes, double quotes will still be used for non-printable characters.
- `forceQuotes` _(default: `false`)_ - if `true`, all non-key strings will be quoted even if they normally don't need to.
- `replacer` - callback `function (key, value)` called recursively on each key/value in source object (see `replacer` docs for `JSON.stringify`).

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 `->`:

``` none
!!null
  "canonical"   -> "~"
  "lowercase"   => "null"
  "uppercase"   -> "NULL"
  "camelcase"   -> "Null"
  "empty"       -> ""

!!int
  "binary"      -> "0b1", "0b101010", "0b1110001111010"
  "octal"       -> "0o1", "0o52", "0o16172"
  "decimal"     => "1", "42", "7290"
  "hexadecimal" -> "0x1", "0x2A", "0x1C7A"

!!bool
  "lowercase"   => "true", "false"
  "uppercase"   -> "TRUE", "FALSE"
  "camelcase"   -> "True", "False"

!!float
  "lowercase"   => ".nan", '.inf'
  "uppercase"   -> ".NAN", '.INF'
  "camelcase"   -> ".NaN", '.Inf'
```

Example:

``` javascript
dump(object, {
  'styles': {
    '!!null': 'canonical' // dump null as ~
  },
  'sortKeys': true        // sort object keys
});
```

Supported YAML types
--------------------

The list of standard YAML tags and corresponding JavaScript types. See also
[YAML tag discussion](https://pyyaml.org/wiki/YAMLTagDiscussion) and
[YAML types repository](https://yaml.org/type/).

```
!!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
```

**JavaScript-specific tags**

See [js-yaml-js-types](https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml-js-types) for
extra types.


Caveats
-------

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.

``` yaml
---
? [ foo, bar ]
: - baz
? { foo: bar }
: - baz
  - baz
```

``` javascript
{ "foo,bar": ["baz"], "[object Object]": ["baz", "baz"] }
```