Ability to serialize/deserialize unstructured data

Describe the problem you’d like to solve

Sometimes I need to be able to break the glass and serialize/deserialize YAML without having well-structured POJOs/KOJOs.

Describe the solution you’d like

I’d like a canonical “vanilla” representation of YAML. It does not have to implement all YAML features (e.g., SnakeYAML chokes on tags in its vanilla codec implementation, and I’d be fine with that behavior). It could be a codec for YamlNode or Any or a new class created for this purpose.

This would bring it in line with other languages’ YAML implementations such as Python’s and Ruby’s.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

A combination of SnakeYAML and Moshi.

Additional context

My context is also multi-document YAML streams from Kubernetes, just like #54 's case.

[sjshuck]

I’m happy with @kitterion 's solution. Thanks for keeping this open despite me not finding time to work on it.

[sjshuck]

Great. It’s not pressing for me so I don’t know exactly when I can get to it, but I’d be happy to try to work on it if you want to keep this ticket open for a bit.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 3:54 AM Charles Korn @.***> wrote:

Right, makes sense. Would you want to be able to go in the other direction as well? (eg. convert a YamlNode instance to a YAML string)

If you’re interested in submitting a PR, adding a parseToYamlNode method should be very straightforward - decodeFromReader already has access to the YamlNode https://github.com/charleskorn/kaml/blob/675f930eb9395d567cb0ff2ae1f37692eca381eb/src/jvmMain/kotlin/com/charleskorn/kaml/Yaml.kt#L53, so adding an alternative implementation that just stops there and returns the YamlNode should be very straightforward.

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