YAML Broken?

[David Pollak]

Folks,

It seems that when I YAML.dump arrays that contain long strings that
contain non-printables and sometimes UTF-8 sequences, the YAML'ed
objects can't be read back in. Is this a known issue? If so, is
there a known work-around? Alternatively, are there any other ways to
serialize objects (JSON doesn't work because eval() barfs on very long
strings)?

Thanks,

David

 

[Justin Collins]

Folks,

It seems that when I YAML.dump arrays that contain long strings that
contain non-printables and sometimes UTF-8 sequences, the YAML'ed
objects can't be read back in. Is this a known issue? If so, is
there a known work-around? Alternatively, are there any other ways to
serialize objects (JSON doesn't work because eval() barfs on very long
strings)?

Thanks,

David

There's always Marshal.

http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Marshal.html

-Justin

 

[ara.t.howard]

Folks,

It seems that when I YAML.dump arrays that contain long strings that
contain non-printables and sometimes UTF-8 sequences, the YAML'ed
objects can't be read back in. Is this a known issue? If so, is
there a known work-around? Alternatively, are there any other ways to
serialize objects (JSON doesn't work because eval() barfs on very long
strings)?

Thanks,

David

can you show an example?


harp:~ > ruby -r yaml -e' nul = 0.chr; y(YAML.load(YAML.dump(nul)) == nul) '
true

harp:~ > ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-01) [i686-linux]


-a

 

[David Pollak]

Thanks!

There's always Marshal.

http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Marshal.html

-Justin

 

[Alex Young]

Folks,

It seems that when I YAML.dump arrays that contain long strings that
contain non-printables and sometimes UTF-8 sequences, the YAML'ed
objects can't be read back in. Is this a known issue? If so, is
there a known work-around? Alternatively, are there any other ways to
serialize objects (JSON doesn't work because eval() barfs on very long
strings)?

If you're on Windows, check you're reading and writing in binary mode...
Not sure if that's what'll be causing your problem, but it's tripped
me up before.

 

[Paul Battley]

It seems that when I YAML.dump arrays that contain long strings that
contain non-printables and sometimes UTF-8 sequences, the YAML'ed
objects can't be read back in. Is this a known issue? If so, is
there a known work-around? Alternatively, are there any other ways to
serialize objects (JSON doesn't work because eval() barfs on very long
strings)?

Are you using 1.8.4? I was bitten by this in Ruby 1.8.2, and actually
managed to track it down to a specific combination (when a hash key
was a string containing both 0x00 and 0x0A in a non-final position).
That specific bug seems to be fixed in 1.8.4, however.

Paul.