- infos = Information about the yamlsmith plugin is in keys below
- infos/author = René Schwaiger sanssecours@me.com
- infos/licence = BSD
- infos/needs = directoryvalue
- infos/provides = conv
- infos/recommends =
- infos/placements = setstorage
- infos/status = maintained specific unittest nodep preview experimental unfinished nodoc concept discouraged
- infos/metadata =
- infos/description = This plugin exports key sets in the YAML format
# Save a single key-value pair
kdb set user/tests/yamlsmith/text 'Pattern Against User'
# Only export the value
kdb export user/tests/yamlsmith/text yamlsmith
#> "Pattern Against User"
# Check that the plugin supports boolean values correctly
kdb set user/tests/yamlsmith/boolean 0
kdb export user/tests/yamlsmith/boolean yamlsmith
#> false
# Undo modifications
kdb rm -r user/tests/yamlsmith
# Add some key-value pairs to the database
kdb set user/tests/yamlsmith/key value
kdb set user/tests/yamlsmith/time 'will die and love will burrow it'
kdb set user/tests/yamlsmith/level1/one 'I'
kdb set user/tests/yamlsmith/level1/two 'II'
# Export data using YAML Smith
kdb export user/tests/yamlsmith yamlsmith
#> key:
#> "value"
#> level1:
#> one:
#> "I"
#> two:
#> "II"
#> time:
#> "will die and love will burrow it"
# Undo modifications
kdb rm -r user/tests/yamlsmith
kdb set user/tests/yamlsmith/low
kdb set user/tests/yamlsmith/low/#0 'You bought some sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet sunflowers'
kdb set user/tests/yamlsmith/low/#1 'And gave them'
kdb set user/tests/yamlsmith/low/#2 'To the night'
kdb export user/tests/yamlsmith yamlsmith
#> low:
#> -
#> "You bought some sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet sunflowers"
#> -
#> "And gave them"
#> -
#> "To the night"
# Undo modifications
kdb rm -r user/tests/yamlsmith
kdb set user/tests/yamlsmith/arrays/Elliott/Smith/#0 XO
kdb set user/tests/yamlsmith/arrays/Elliott/Smith/#1 'Figure 8'
kdb set user/tests/yamlsmith/arrays/The/Smiths/#0 'The Queen Is Dead'
kdb export user/tests/yamlsmith yamlsmith
#> arrays:
#> Elliott:
#> Smith:
#> -
#> "XO"
#> -
#> "Figure 8"
#> The:
#> Smiths:
#> -
#> "The Queen Is Dead"
# Undo modifications
kdb rm -r user/tests/yamlsmith
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This plugin supports only a very limited subset of YAML.
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YAML Smith does not support
- binary values,
- non-contiguous arrays and
- special characters
.