Unable to print an unquoted YAML

[FStefanni]

Hi,

I have a JSON document.
What I want is to read the document, and write it back as a proper YAML.
This means:

• write sequences and objects as blocks
• do not use quotes for keys

So I tried:

const json = YAML.parseDocument(jsonObject);
const content = YAML.stringify(
            json,
            {
                "blockQuote": true,
                "collectionStyle": "block",
                "defaultKeyType": YAML.Scalar.PLAIN,
                "defaultStringType": YAML.Scalar.BLOCK_LITERAL,
                "doubleQuotedAsJSON": true,
                "indentSeq": true
            }
        );

But it did not work, since the output is something as:

  "network-2":        // <--- Please note the undesired quotes on the keys! :(
    "external":
      "name": "network-2"

I desire something as:

  network-2:        // <--- No quotes on keys! :)
     external:
      name: "network-2"

I tried also a lot of different combinations, but no success.

Another idea could be to maybe iterate over all tree objects, and somehow force the node styles as PLAIN (I suppose),
But it is to me not obvious how to iterate over the nodes.

Any idea/help please?

Regards

[eemeli]

How are you reading the document? It sounds like you're only interested in the data that it contains, rather than its JSON representation, so JSON.parse() would probably be your best choice. Then YAML.stringify() would only be affected by the options that you pass to it, which doesn't seem to be the case in your examples above.

[FStefanni]

Hi,

thank you for the reply.
I have improved the question, by adding how I create the YAML document (const json = YAML.parseDocument(jsonObject);).

Regards

[eemeli]

See also the rest of my previous comment.

[FStefanni]

Hi,

I missed it.
Yes, it worked. Thanks.

Regards