YAML Is A Superset Of JSON
Put another way, JSON is a subset of YAML.
Here is what the YAML spec has to say:
YAML can therefore be viewed as a natural superset of JSON, offering improved human readability and a more complete information model. This is also the case in practice; every JSON file is also a valid YAML file.
We can see this in practice by using our favorite YAML parse to read a JSON file. For me that is Ruby and its built-in YAML library.
First, consider the following JSON file (data.json
):
Now, I'll open up an IRB session (Ruby's interactive REPL) and read it in.
It works. And for me, having not considered those two format related, this isn't something I would have expected to work.
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