[tpm] Fwd: delimiting/reading YAML documents across sockets

[Mike Stok]

Forgot to reply all.  Might as well be ignorant in public ��

Mike

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Fulko Hew <fulko.hew at gmail.com>
> Subject: [tpm] delimiting/reading YAML documents across sockets
> Date: 8 July, 2013 3:25:57 PM EDT
> To: toronto-pm at pm.org
> 
> Here's another entry for my 'yet to be composed' meeting
> presentation entitled 'Things I've Stubbed My Toe On ...'
> 
> 
> I'm trying to use YAML modules to send structures across
> pipes from children to parent processes (or sockets).
> Although the YAML docs talk about Dump() and Load()
> I haven't been able to find (or figure out) an adequate
> example of 'exchanging' the data, only encoding and decoding.
> 
> Although YAML talks about documents, and documents are delimited
> by '---' and '...' respectively, the YAML.pm doesn't (apparently)
> directly provide this kind of 'document' support.  I would have
> expected a module to have provided a 'document wrapper' support.
> 
> Although I can add the wrapper manually during transmission...
> 
> Then when it comes to the receiving end... what am I expected
> to do?  I don't think I can do a simple newline delimited read.
> [What happens to newlines that may have been in the variables
> I was YAML sending ?]   Do I need to sit in a loop doing
> newline-reads, accumulating stuff, till I see a line that starts
> with the '---' or '...' ?
> 
> And, can all variables in a single exchange be sent within
> the same document (example?) or do I have to send them
> as individual documents within some kind of 'document of
> document' wrapper?  Surely this can't be as hard as it seems?
> 
> Suggestions, examples or references ?
> [PS. The same questions would apply to anyone who suggests
>  JSON as an alternative.]
> 
> TIA
> Fulko
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