Parsing YAML without separator [rt.cpan.org #34073]

[toddr]

Migrated from rt.cpan.org#34073 (status was 'stalled')

Requestors:

• [email protected]

From [email protected] on 2008-03-14 07:24:30:

Today I encountered a META.yml file that contained nothing but:

% od -c META.yml                                                       
               
0000000   -   -  \n
0000003

YAML.pm throws an error on it but YAML::Syck translates it. Watch yourself:

% ysh -MYAML::Syck < META.yml
$VAR1 = '--';

% ysh -MYAML < META.yml
YAML Error: Expected separator '---'
   Code: YAML_PARSE_ERR_NO_SEPARATOR
   Line: 1
   Document: 2
 at /usr/share/perl5/YAML.pm line 33


Cheers,

From [email protected] on 2010-05-20 11:29:31:

(This is a form-reply that isn't specific to your particular report)

YAML::Syck has just acquired one new maintainer (me), it still doesn't
have anyone that *cares* about it. But I'm willing to help solve your
report & release a new version with the fix if it's easy for me.

It now has a Git repository at:

    http://github.com/avar/YAML-Syck

If your report is a patch that fixes a problem, great. Please remake
the patch against Git by forking that repo and sending me a pull
request on GitHub (or an update to this bug if you prefer
git-format-patch(1) or some other repo provider..). Make sure to
include a test for what you fixed.

If your report is some code that fails (and you have a testcase for
it) a patch against the test suite to demonstrate that failure would
be very useful. It's OK if the test crashes and burns, see
Test::More's docs for how to make TODO tests that fail now, but
shouldn't. Even if it segfaults perl C<system $^X => qw/ -Mblib
-MYAML::Syck .../> or something like that and checking the return
value will do.

From [email protected] on 2010-07-19 20:59:51:

$>perl -MYAML -E 'Load "--\n"; print "Success!\n"'
YAML Error: Expected separator '---'
   Code: YAML_PARSE_ERR_NO_SEPARATOR
   Line: 1
   Document: 2
 at /usr/local/perl/510/lib/5.10.1/YAML.pm line 36


$>perl -MYAML::Syck -E 'Load "--\n"; print "Success!\n"'
Success!

From [email protected] on 2010-07-19 21:16:09:

Current behavior is to not die, but return what was passed in. I believe the correct behavior 
would be do die on a bad Load, but Syck's been out there a while. It might be a bad idea to fix it 
now.

TODO tests added: 84fbc0261b1e1012f065413e6351b7a1c4ccb3ec

[perlpunk]

This is actually valid YAML, so YAML::Syck is correct here.

[toddr]

@perlpunk so I need to adjust the todo tests then?

[perlpunk]

@toddr Actually, I realized that we're talking about YAML 1.0 here, not 1.1/1.2, and I don't know if that's valid. Sorry for the confusion ;-)