Elektra  0.8.26
Plugin: yambi

YAMBi

Introduction

This plugin uses Bison to generate a parser for the YAML serialization format.

Dependencies

The plugin requires Bison (3.0 or later).

Examples

Mappings

1 # Mount plugin
2 sudo kdb mount config.yaml user/tests/yambi yambi
3 
4 kdb set user/tests/yambi 'Mount Point'
5 kdb get user/tests/yambi
6 #> Mount Point
7 
8 kdb set user/tests/yambi/bambi 'Mule Deer'
9 kdb get user/tests/yambi/bambi
10 #> Mule Deer
11 
12 kdb set user/tests/yambi/thumper 'Rabbit'
13 kdb get user/tests/yambi/thumper
14 #> Rabbit
15 
16 kdb set user/tests/yambi/bambi/baby 'Bobby Stewart'
17 kdb set user/tests/yambi/bambi/young 'Donnie Dunagan'
18 kdb set user/tests/yambi/bambi/adolescent 'Hardie Albright'
19 kdb set user/tests/yambi/bambi/adult 'John Sutherland'
20 
21 kdb get user/tests/yambi/bambi/baby
22 #> Bobby Stewart
23 
24 kdb ls user/tests/yambi
25 #> user/tests/yambi
26 #> user/tests/yambi/bambi
27 #> user/tests/yambi/bambi/adolescent
28 #> user/tests/yambi/bambi/adult
29 #> user/tests/yambi/bambi/baby
30 #> user/tests/yambi/bambi/young
31 #> user/tests/yambi/thumper
32 
33 # Undo modifications
34 kdb rm -r user/tests/yambi
35 sudo kdb umount user/tests/yambi

Arrays

1 # Mount plugin
2 sudo kdb mount config.yaml user/tests/yambi yambi
3 
4 kdb set user/tests/yambi/friends
5 kdb set user/tests/yambi/friends/#0 Thumper
6 kdb set user/tests/yambi/friends/#1 Flower
7 
8 # Retrieve last array index
9 kdb getmeta user/tests/yambi/friends array
10 #> #1
11 
12 kdb get user/tests/yambi/friends/#0
13 #> Thumper
14 kdb get user/tests/yambi/friends/#1
15 #> Flower
16 
17 # Undo modifications
18 kdb rm -r user/tests/yambi
19 sudo kdb umount user/tests/yambi

Error Messages

```

Mount plugin

sudo kdb mount config.yaml user/tests/yambi yambi

Manually add data containing a syntax error

printf – 'Thumper: - Eating greens is a special treat.
' > kdb file user/tests/yambi printf – ' - It makes long ears and great big feet.
' >> kdb file user/tests/yambi printf – '- But it sure is awful stuff to eat.' >> kdb file user/tests/yambi

Try to retrieve data

kdb get user/tests/yambi/Thumper/#2

RET: 5

STDERR: .*config.yaml:3:1: syntax error, unexpected ELEMENT, expecting MAP_END or KEY.*

Fix syntax error

printf – 'Thumper: - Eating greens is a special treat.
' > kdb file user/tests/yambi printf – ' - It makes long ears and great big feet.
' >> kdb file user/tests/yambi printf – ' - But it sure is awful stuff to eat.' >> kdb file user/tests/yambi

Retrieve data

kdb get user/tests/yambi/Thumper/#2 #> But it sure is awful stuff to eat.

Undo modifications

kdb rm -r user/tests/yambi sudo kdb umount user/tests/yambi ```

Limitations

The plugin supports the same limited YAML syntax as Yan LR.