yaml-types

Additional useful types for yaml.

Installation and Usage

npm install yaml yaml-types

Each type (a.k.a. "tag") is available as a named export of 'yaml-types'. These may then be used as custom tags:

import { parse } from 'yaml'
import { regexp } from 'yaml-types'

const re = parse('!re /fo./g', { customTags: [regexp] })
'foxbarfoo'.match(re) // [ 'fox', 'foo' ]

Available Types

• bigint (!bigint) - JavaScript BigInt values. Note: in order to use this effectively, a function must be provided as customTags in order to prepend the bigint tag, or else the built-in !!int tags will take priority. See bigint.test.ts for examples.
• binary (!!binary) - JavaScript Uint8Array, one of the YAML 1.1 tags
• classTag (!class) - JavaScript Class values
• error (!error) - JavaScript Error objects
• functionTag (!function) - JavaScript Function values (will also be used to stringify Class values, unless the classTag tag is loaded ahead of functionTag)
• nullobject (!nullobject) - Object with a null prototype
• omap (!!omap) - JavaScript Map, one of the YAML 1.1 tags
• pairs (!!pairs) - Ordered sequence of key-value pairs, one of the YAML 1.1 tags
• regexp (!re) - RegExp values, using their default /foo/flags string representation.
• set (!!set) - JavaScript Set, one of the YAML 1.1 tags
• sharedSymbol (!symbol/shared) - Shared Symbols, i.e. ones created with Symbol.for()
• symbol (!symbol) - Unique Symbols
• timestamp (!!timestamp) - JavaScript Date, one of the YAML 1.1 tags

The function and class values created by parsing !function and !class tags will not actually replicate running code, but rather no-op function/class values with matching name and toString properties.

Customising Tag Names

To use one of the types with a different tag identifier, set its tag value accordingly. For example, to extend the default tag namespace with !!js/symbol instead of using a local !symbol tag for Symbol values:

import { stringify } from 'yaml'
import { symbol } from 'yaml-types'

const mysymbol = { ...symbol, tag: 'tag:yaml.org,2002:js/symbol' }
stringify(Symbol('foo'), { customTags: [mysymbol] })

!!js/symbol foo

To use a named tag handle like !js!symbol, a few more steps are required:

import { Document } from 'yaml'
import { symbol } from 'yaml-types'

const mysymbol = { ...symbol, tag: 'tag:js:symbol' }
const doc = new Document(Symbol('foo'), { customTags: [mysymbol] })
doc.directives.tags['!js!'] = 'tag:js:'
doc.toString()

%TAG !js! tag:js:
---
!js!symbol foo

Contributing

Additions to this library are very welcome! Many data types are useful beyond any single project, and while the core yaml library is mostly limited to the YAML spec, no such restriction applies here.

The source code is written in TypeScript, and the tests use Node-Tap. When submitting a PR for a new type, tests and documentation are required, as well as satisfying Prettier.