YAML-Parser

A YAML parser with support for comments.

Features:

• Preserves comments on save
• Support for UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 files
• Correct handling of Windows style new lines (\r\n)

Build:

Requirements:

• git
• JDK for Java 1.8 or newer
• Maven 3

Build it:

git clone https://github.com/MarkusWME/YAML-Parser.git
mvn clean install

TODO:

• testing
• handling of multiline strings (block scalars): https://yaml-multiline.info/
• handling of keys with dots (should be merged into the correct location in the tree instead of creating their own)
• improve handling of quoted keys (reading)
• add map getter
  • get<Type>Map(String key) should return a map of type Map<String, <Type>> where each sub key is the key for the map and the sub keys value it's value
• full yaml 1.1 support https://yaml.org/spec/1.1/current.html