import yaml, streams
type Person = object
  name : string
  age  : int32

var personList = newSeq[Person]()
personList.add(Person(name: "Karl Koch", age: 23))
personList.add(Person(name: "Peter Pan", age: 12))

var s = newFileStream("out.yaml", fmWrite)
Dumper().dump(personList, s)
s.close()

- name: Karl Koch
  age: 23
- name: Peter Pan
  age: 12

import yaml, streams
type Person = object
  name : string
  age  : int32

var personList: seq[Person]
var s = newFileStream("in.yaml")
load(s, personList)
s.close()

- { name: Karl Koch, age: 23 }
- { name: Peter Pan, age: 12 }

import yaml, yaml/style, streams

type
  Strings = object
    first {.scalar: ssSingleQuoted.}: string
    second {.scalar: ssLiteral.}: string
    third {.scalar: ssDoubleQuoted.}: string
  
  Numbers {.collection: csFlow.} = object
    start, stop: int32
  
  Root = object
    strings: Strings
    numbers: Numbers
    blockNumbers {.collection: csBlock.}: Numbers

var root = Root(
  strings: Strings(
    first: "foo", second: "bar\n", third: "baz"
  ),
  numbers: Numbers(start: 0, stop: 23),
  blockNumbers: Numbers(start: 23, stop: 42)
)

var s = newFileStream("out.yaml", fmWrite)
Dumper().dump(root, s)
s.close()

strings:
  first: 'foo'
  second: |
    bar
  third: "baz"
numbers: {
    start: 0,
    stop: 23
  }
blockNumbers:
  start: 23
  stop: 42

import yaml, streams
type Person = object
  name: string
  age: int32

var personList = newSeq[Person]()
personList.add(Person(name: "Karl Koch", age: 23))
personList.add(Person(name: "Peter Pan", age: 12))

var s = newFileStream("out.yaml", fmWrite)
var dumper = explanatoryDumper()
dumper.presentation.indentationStep = 3
dumper.presentation.newlines = nlLF
dumper.presentation.outputVersion = ov1_1
dumper.dump(personList, s)
s.close()

%YAML 1.1
%TAG !n! tag:nimyaml.org,2016:
--- !n!system:seq(tag:nimyaml.org;2016:custom:Person)
[
   !n!custom:Person {
      ?  !n!field "name"
      :  !!str "Karl Koch",
      ?  !n!field "age"
      :  !n!system:int32 "23"
   },
   !n!custom:Person {
      ?  !n!field "name"
      :  !!str "Peter Pan",
      ?  !n!field "age"
      :  !n!system:int32 "12"
   }
]

import yaml, streams
type
  Node = ref NodeObj
  NodeObj = object
    name: string
    left, right: Node

var node1, node2, node3: Node
new(node1); new(node2); new(node3)
node1.name = "Node 1"
node2.name = "Node 2"
node3.name = "Node 3"
node1.left = node2
node1.right = node3
node2.right = node3
node3.left = node1

var s = newFileStream("out.yaml", fmWrite)
Dumper().dump(node1, s)
s.close()

--- &a
name: Node 1
left:
  name: Node 2
  left: !!null ~
  right: &b
    name: Node 3
    left: *a
    right: !!null ~
right: *b

import yaml, streams
type
  Node = ref NodeObj
  NodeObj = object
    name: string
    left, right: Node

var node1: Node

var s = newFileStream("in.yaml")
load(s, node1)
s.close()

--- &a
name: Node 1
left:
  name: Node 2
  left: ~
  right: &b
    name: Node 3
    left: *a
    right: ~
right: *b

import yaml, streams
type Mob = object
  level, experience: int32
  drops: seq[string]

setTag(Mob, Tag("!Mob"))
setTag(seq[string], Tag("!Drops"))

var mob = Mob(level: 42, experience: 1800, drops:
    @["Sword of Mob Slaying"])
var s = newFileStream("out.yaml", fmWrite)
var dumper = Dumper()
dumper.serialization.tagStyle = tsAll
dumper.serialization.handles = initNimYamlTagHandle()
dumper.dump(mob, s)
s.close()

%TAG !n! tag:nimyaml.org,2016:
--- !Mob
!n!field level: !n!system:int32 42
!n!field experience: !n!system:int32 1800
!n!field drops: !Drops [!!str Sword of Mob Slaying]

import yaml, streams
type Person = object
  name : string
  age  : int32

var personList = newSeq[Person]()
personList.add(Person(name: "Karl Koch", age: 23))
personList.add(Person(name: "Peter Pan", age: 12))

var s = newFileStream("out.yaml", fmWrite)
jsonDumper().dump(personList, s)
s.close()

[
  {
    "name": "Karl Koch",
    "age": 23
  },
  {
    "name": "Peter Pan",
    "age": 12
  }
]

import yaml, streams
type Person = object
  name : string
  age  : int32

var personList: seq[Person]

var s = newFileStream("in.yaml")
load(s, personList)
s.close()

[
  {
    "name": "Karl Koch",
    "age": 23
  },
  {
    "name": "Peter Pan",
    "age": 12
  }
]

import yaml, streams
type
  Person = object
    name: string

  ContainerKind = enum
    ckString, ckInt, ckBool, ckPerson, ckNone

  # {.implicit.} tells NimYAML to use Container
  # as implicit type.
  # only possible with variant object types where
  # each branch contains at most one object.
  Container {.implicit.} = object
    case kind: ContainerKind
    of ckString:
      strVal: string
    of ckInt:
      intVal: int
    of ckBool:
      boolVal: bool
    of ckPerson:
      personVal: Person
    of ckNone:
      discard

setTag(Person, Tag("!Person"))

var list: seq[Container]

var s = newFileStream("in.yaml")
load(s, list)
s.close()

assert(list[0].kind == ckString)
assert(list[0].strVal == "this is a string")
# and so on

- this is a string
- 42
- false
- !!str 23
- !Person {name: Trillian}
- !!null

import yaml, yaml/data, yaml/parser, yaml/hints, streams
type Person = object
  name: string

setTag(Person, Tag("!Person"), yTagPerson)

var
  s = newFileStream("in.yaml", fmRead)
  yamlParser = initYamlParser()
  events = yamlParser.parse(s)
  context = initConstructionContext(events)

assert events.next().kind == yamlStartStream
assert events.next().kind == yamlStartDoc
assert events.next().kind == yamlStartSeq
var nextEvent = events.peek()
while nextEvent.kind != yamlEndSeq:
  var curTag = nextEvent.properties().tag
  if curTag == yTagQuestionMark:
    # we only support implicitly tagged scalars
    assert nextEvent.kind == yamlScalar
    case guessType(nextEvent.scalarContent)
    of yTypeInteger: curTag = yTagInteger
    of yTypeBoolTrue, yTypeBoolFalse:
      curTag = yTagBoolean
    of yTypeUnknown: curTag = yTagString
    else: assert false, "Type not supported!"
  elif curTag == yTagExclamationMark:
    curTag = yTagString
  case curTag
  of yTagString:
    var s: string
    context.constructChild(s)
    echo "got string: ", s
  of yTagInteger:
    var i: int32
    context.constructChild(i)
    echo "got integer: ", i
  of yTagBoolean:
    var b: bool
    context.constructChild(b)
    echo "got boolean: ", b
  of yTagPerson:
    var p: Person
    context.constructChild(p)
    echo "got Person with name: ", p.name
  else: assert false, "unsupported tag: " & $curTag
  nextEvent = events.peek()
assert events.next().kind == yamlEndSeq
assert events.next().kind == yamlEndDoc
assert events.next().kind == yamlEndStream
s.close()

- this is a string
- 42
- false
- !!str 23
- !Person {name: Trillian}