RFE: parseYAML

[derrickburns]

Can you add a function to parse a YAML string?

[lihaoyi-databricks]

@derrickburns could you open this as an issue on the http://github.com/google/jsonnet repository? Sjsonnet largely tries to follow google/jsonnet's behavior as closely as possible, and doesn't make any language or library innovations on its own. If google/jsonnet adds such a function, we'll do so as well, if not we won't. Better to keep the language/library-related discussions centralized over on their repo

[olorin37]

Hello, in fact it exists almost ready PR 888 for introducing std.parseYaml in google/jsonnet, and possibly it can be accepted when problems will be solved. There is also issue 460 for that (I do not know why it is not visible as linked issue). There is also ready waiting for C++ implementation PR 339 for go-jsonnet.

I mention it because it will be probably merged very soon to the reference implementation for sjsonnet and also I would like to use this option in future.

[olorin37]

Currently std.parseYaml is already merged to both reference implementations (C++: google/jsonnet#899 and Go: google/go-jsonnet#339 versions). It is already on their masters, but not released in any tag yet.

So, it looks like good time to start implementation in sjsonnet.

[lihaoyi-databricks]

This finally landed in 0.4.6 #142