sequence of documents output style

[cruisercoder]

I'm trying to get the emitter to output an array of documents in full block style. This is what the library outputs in block mode:

key: [
    a: 1,
    b: 2]

and this is what I'm trying to emit as output:

key:
  - a: 1
  - b: 2

Is this possible?

[cruisercoder]

it has something do internally with an empty save ctx in fy_emit_sequence_prolog.

The program below shows the issue. This is the output:

key: [
    a: 1]

struct fy_emitter*, enum fy_emitter_write_type, const char* str, int len, void*) {
  write(1, str, len);
  return len;
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
  struct fy_emitter_cfg cfg;
  struct fy_emitter* emit;
  cfg.flags = FYECF_MODE_BLOCK;
  cfg.output = handler;
  emit = fy_emitter_create(&cfg);
  fy_emit_event(emit, fy_emit_event_create(emit, FYET_STREAM_START));
  fy_emit_event(emit, fy_emit_event_create(emit, FYET_DOCUMENT_START, true, NULL, NULL));
  fy_emit_event(emit, fy_emit_event_create(emit, FYET_MAPPING_START, FYNS_BLOCK, NULL, NULL));
  fy_emit_event(emit,
                fy_emit_event_create(emit, FYET_SCALAR, FYSS_PLAIN, "key", FY_NT, NULL, NULL));
  fy_emit_event(emit, fy_emit_event_create(emit, FYET_SEQUENCE_START, FYNS_BLOCK, NULL, NULL));
  fy_emit_event(emit, fy_emit_event_create(emit, FYET_MAPPING_START, FYNS_BLOCK, NULL, NULL));
  fy_emit_event(emit, fy_emit_event_create(emit, FYET_SCALAR, FYSS_PLAIN, "a", FY_NT, NULL, NULL));
  fy_emit_event(emit, fy_emit_event_create(emit, FYET_SCALAR, FYSS_PLAIN, "1", FY_NT, NULL, NULL));
  fy_emit_event(emit, fy_emit_event_create(emit, FYET_MAPPING_END));
  fy_emit_event(emit, fy_emit_event_create(emit, FYET_SEQUENCE_END));
  fy_emit_event(emit, fy_emit_event_create(emit, FYET_MAPPING_END));
  fy_emit_event(emit, fy_emit_event_create(emit, FYET_DOCUMENT_END, true, NULL, NULL));
  fy_emit_event(emit, fy_emit_event_create(emit, FYET_STREAM_END));
  fy_emitter_destroy(emit);
}

[pantoniou]

I am currently testing a fix - the problem is somewhat tricky because you're using the event interface directly and the style hints were not respected in all of the cases.

[pantoniou]

01953f31f7c219061d17beba59c631620a967ad3 should fix this.

You will need to use the manual emitting mode to make sure the hints are respected. If this fixes your issue, please close.

[cruisercoder]

This seems to fix the issue for me. Is there a way, however, to allow indentation of the dash? There seems to be agreement that this is easier to read. The output now, which is valid YAML, is this:

key:
- a: 1
- b: 2

This is the output I would like to see, which is also valid but more readable, is this:

key:
  - a: 1
  - b: 2

[pantoniou]

The original issue is fixed; Reopen this for styling options