Request: Query from YAML data file

[PeterTheobald]

It would be so powerful if Dataview could query from one text note file that contains a full database in the form of a YAML file. Eg:

table from MyMovieDatabase

Note: MyMovieDatabase:

• Movie: 2001 A Space Odyssey Director: Stanley Kubrick Year: 1968
• Movie: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Director: Steven Spielberg Year: 1982
• Movie: Star Wars Director: George Lucas Year: 1977

[blacksmithgu]

So something like having a db.yml file or something, say:

movie: 2001 A Space Odyssey
director: Stanley Kubrick
year: 1968
---
...
---
movie: Star Wars
director: George Lucas
year: 1977

And then you could pull data from it directly via TABLE FROM yml("db.yml") or something. If so, I agree - seems like a cool idea. Probably not too hard to implement. Will put it on my docker after my current slew of QOL improvements.

[AB1908]

Interesting idea. This could probably be done with Daniel's text files plugin and some JS. IMO, that's the way to go since adding and maintaining file adapters seems outside of the scope of this plugin. Also because it's likely enough that people with separate yaml files are likely technical enough to accomplish this themselves.

[blacksmithgu]

JS is the correct way to do this now; I think a quick workaround would be to add dv.io.yml to support loading yaml files into data arrays to make it easier.