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===
The purpose of this utility is to pretty-print JSON in the human-readable YAML object notation
(ignore the misnomer, it's not a markup language at all)
(ignore the misnomer, YAML is not a Markup Language at all).
You see, JSON is a proper subset of YAML, The difference is that YAML can use whitespace instead of syntax, which is more human-readable.
Also, YAML supports comments.
Installation
===
So, for all the times you want to turn JSON int YAML (YML):
```bash
npm install -g json2yaml
```
{
"foo": "bar",
"baz": [
"qux",
"quxx"
],
"corge": null,
"grault": 1,
"garply": true,
"waldo": "false",
"fred": "undefined"
}
becomes
---
foo: "bar"
baz:
- "qux"
- "quxx"
corge: null
grault: 1
garply: true
waldo: "false"
fred: "undefined"
*Note*: To use `npm` and `json2yaml` you must have installed [NodeJS](http://nodejs.org#download).
Usage
---
Specify a file:
json2yaml ./example.json
```bash
json2yaml ./example.json > ./example.yml
yaml2json ./example.kml | json2yaml
yaml2json ./example.yml | json2yaml > ./example.yml
```
Or pipe from stdin:
curl -s http://foobar3000.com/echo/echo.json | json2yaml
```bash
curl -s http://foobar3000.com/echo/echo.json | json2yaml
wget -qO- http://foobar3000.com/echo/echo.json | json2yaml
wget -qO- http://foobar3000.com/echo/echo.json | json2yaml
```
Or require:
(function () {
"use strict";
```javascript
(function () {
"use strict";
var YAML = require('json2yaml')
, ymlText
;
var YAML = require('json2yaml')
, ymlText
;
ymlText = YAML.stringify({
"foo": "bar"
, "baz": "corge"
});
ymlText = YAML.stringify({
"foo": "bar"
, "baz": "corge"
});
console.log(ymlText);
}());
console.log(ymlText);
}());
```
Installation
Example
===
So, for all the times you want to turn JSON int YAML (YML):
```javascript
{ "foo": "bar"
, "baz": [
"qux"
, "quxx"
]
, "corge": null
, "grault": 1
, "garply": true
, "waldo": "false"
, "fred": "undefined"
}
```
becomes
```yaml
---
foo: "bar"
baz:
- "qux"
- "quxx"
corge: null
grault: 1
garply: true
waldo: "false"
fred: "undefined"
```
npm install -g json2yaml
*Note*: In fact, both of those Object Notations qualify as YAML
because JSON technically *is* a proper subset of YAML.
That is to say that all proper YAML parsers parse proper JSON.
YAML can use either *whitespace and dashes* or *brackets and commas*.
For human readability, the whitespace-based YAML is preferrable.
For compression and computer readability, the syntax-based YAML is preferrable.