yambi

• infos = Information about the yambi plugin is in keys below
• infos/author = René Schwaiger sanssecours@me.com
• infos/licence = BSD
• infos/needs = directoryvalue yamlsmith
• infos/provides = storage/yaml
• infos/recommends =
• infos/placements = getstorage
• infos/status = maintained unittest preview experimental unfinished nodoc concept discouraged
• infos/metadata =
• infos/description = This storage plugin use a parser generated by Bison to read YAML files

YAMBi

Introduction

This plugin uses Bison to generate a parser for the YAML serialization format.

Dependencies

The plugin requires Bison (version 3.0 or later).

Examples

Mappings

# Mount plugin
sudo kdb mount config.yaml user/tests/yambi yambi

kdb set user/tests/yambi 'Mount Point'
kdb get user/tests/yambi
#> Mount Point

kdb set user/tests/yambi/bambi 'Mule Deer'
kdb get user/tests/yambi/bambi
#> Mule Deer

kdb set user/tests/yambi/thumper 'Rabbit'
kdb get user/tests/yambi/thumper
#> Rabbit

kdb set user/tests/yambi/bambi/baby 'Bobby Stewart'
kdb set user/tests/yambi/bambi/young 'Donnie Dunagan'
kdb set user/tests/yambi/bambi/adolescent 'Hardie Albright'
kdb set user/tests/yambi/bambi/adult 'John Sutherland'

kdb get user/tests/yambi/bambi/baby
#> Bobby Stewart

kdb ls user/tests/yambi
#> user/tests/yambi
#> user/tests/yambi/bambi
#> user/tests/yambi/bambi/adolescent
#> user/tests/yambi/bambi/adult
#> user/tests/yambi/bambi/baby
#> user/tests/yambi/bambi/young
#> user/tests/yambi/thumper

# Undo modifications
kdb rm -r user/tests/yambi
sudo kdb umount user/tests/yambi

Arrays

# Mount plugin
sudo kdb mount config.yaml user/tests/yambi yambi

kdb set user/tests/yambi/friends
kdb set user/tests/yambi/friends/#0 Thumper
kdb set user/tests/yambi/friends/#1 Flower

# Retrieve last array index
kdb meta-get user/tests/yambi/friends array
#> #1

kdb get user/tests/yambi/friends/#0
#> Thumper
kdb get user/tests/yambi/friends/#1
#> Flower

# Undo modifications
kdb rm -r user/tests/yambi
sudo kdb umount user/tests/yambi

Boolean Values

# Mount plugin
sudo kdb mount config.yaml user/tests/yambi yambi

# Manually add a boolean value to the database
printf 'boolean: false' > `kdb file user/tests/yambi`

# Elektra stores boolean values as `0` and `1`
kdb get user/tests/yambi/boolean
#> 0

# Undo modifications to the key database
kdb rm -r user/tests/yambi
sudo kdb umount user/tests/yambi

Error Messages

# Mount plugin
sudo kdb mount config.yaml user/tests/yambi yambi

# Manually add data containing syntax errors
printf -- 'Thumper: - Eating greens is a special treat.\n'      >  `kdb file user/tests/yambi`
printf -- '         - It makes long ears and great big feet.\n' >> `kdb file user/tests/yambi`
printf -- '- But it sure is awful stuff to eat.\n'              >> `kdb file user/tests/yambi`
printf -- '         - I made that last part up myself\n.'       >> `kdb file user/tests/yambi`
printf -- 'Stephen King:\n'                                     >> `kdb file user/tests/yambi`
printf -- ' The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie.\n'   >> `kdb file user/tests/yambi`
printf -- ' - It was Bambi.\n'                                  >> `kdb file user/tests/yambi`

# Try to retrieve data
kdb get user/tests/yambi/Thumper/#2
# RET: 5
# STDERR: .*config.yaml:3:1: syntax error, unexpected element, expecting end of map or key.*

# Let us look at the error message more closely.
# Since the location of `config.yaml` depends on the current user and OS,
# we store the text before `config.yaml` as `user/tests/error/prefix`.
kdb set user/tests/error "$(2>&1 kdb ls user/tests/yambi)"
kdb set user/tests/error/prefix "$(kdb get user/tests/error | grep 'config.yaml' | head -1 | sed -E 's/(.*)config.yaml.*/\1/')"
kdb get user/tests/error/prefix
# We also store the length of the prefix, so we can remove it from every
# line of the error message.
kdb set user/tests/error/prefix/length "$(kdb get user/tests/error/prefix | wc -c | sed 's/[ ]*//g')"

# Since we only want to look at the “reason” of the error, we
# remove the other part of the error message with `head` and `tail`.
kdb get user/tests/error | tail -n6 | cut -c"$(kdb get user/tests/error/prefix/length | tr -d '\n')"-
#> config.yaml:3:1: syntax error, unexpected element, expecting end of map or key
#>                  - But it sure is awful stuff to eat.
#>                  ^
#> config.yaml:7:2: syntax error, unexpected start of sequence, expecting end of map or key
#>                   - It was Bambi.
#>                   ^

# Fix syntax errors
printf -- 'Thumper: - Eating greens is a special treat.\n'      >  `kdb file user/tests/yambi`
printf -- '         - It makes long ears and great big feet.\n' >> `kdb file user/tests/yambi`
printf -- '         - But it sure is awful stuff to eat.\n'     >> `kdb file user/tests/yambi`
printf -- '         - I made that last part up myself\n.'       >> `kdb file user/tests/yambi`
printf -- 'Stephen King:\n'                                     >> `kdb file user/tests/yambi`
printf -- ' - The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie.\n' >> `kdb file user/tests/yambi`
printf -- ' - It was Bambi.\n'                                  >> `kdb file user/tests/yambi`

# Retrieve data
kdb get user/tests/yambi/Thumper/#2
#> But it sure is awful stuff to eat.

# Undo modifications
kdb rm -r user/tests/error
kdb rm -r user/tests/yambi
sudo kdb umount user/tests/yambi

Limitations

The plugin supports the same limited YAML syntax as Yan LR.

• The plugin always assumes UTF-8 encoded data.