Allow partial overriding of nested YAML content

A section of an example YAML file:

sections:
  header:
    text@: "Some header text"
  promo:
    heading@: "Heading"

The above YAML is used in the default locale (en_US). If in the en_IN locale I want to override just the promo section, using the code below would override the whole sections object:

---
$locale: en_IN
  sections:
    promo:
      heading@: "New heading"

Obviously the desired outcome is that we only affect the promo subsection.

/cc @meizon

[jeremydw]

Okay, #239 is merged! Time to resume work on this feature.

[jeremydw]

The former would work, although you’ll need to add an anchor for &smoothies.flavours before you can use *smoothies.flavours. After merging in https://github.com/grow/grow/pull/239 we’ll resume working on this to get it in ASAP.

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Wills Bithrey [e-mail] wrote:

Would this work?

smoothies: flavours: - name: “Coconut” price: 10 - name: “Strawberry” price: 9 flavours@it: << : *smoothies.flavours - name: “Amaretti” price: 10

i.e. We often have “top level” groupings of things which then contain lists of other things as per this example in our yaml files, and I’m not sure that the merge would work since it’s being used within the same “parent” map?

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