dasel put --type string not working when converting to yaml

[DeluxeOwl]

Describe the bug
When I'm doing this:

dasel put --type string --file values.dev.yaml --selector "annotations.previousShortSHA" -v 1615

the value comes out as a number

annotations:
    branch: main
    previousShortSHA: 1615

Expected behavior
previousShortSHA should be "1615"

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. iOS] ubuntu, manjaro
• Version [e.g. 22] (dasel --version): 2.3.4

Additional context
I'm using ArgoCD for kubernetes and I was bitten by this when doing the following:

dasel put -t string --file "values.dev.yaml" --selector "annotations.previousShortSHA" -v "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"

and it so happened that "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)" returned a number:

and ArgoCD threw an error because it expected a string

[TomWright]

I think this is a quoting issue. I'll take a look and potentially add some more flags to enable/disable string quoting when writing values.

[Argelbargel]

Hi. I've got a similar problem. I'm modifying an existing YAML file adding some keys. After writing it out as YAML empty string are converted to nil/null instead of empty strings. So this:

empty_value: ""

is converted to

empty_value:

which ist okay most of the time - except when the code reading the YAML checks explicitly for the empty string. So keeping the type/quoting empty values would be a great option

[TomWright]

I've been on holiday but will try to add the flag mentioned above once I've caught up with work

[TomWright]

I've added a fix in a way that avoids the need for a new flag. This will be released in the next version.

[TomWright]

tom ~ $ dasel -v
dasel version 2.3.5
tom ~ $ echo 'annotations:
  previousShortSHA: old' | dasel put -r yaml -t string -v '1615' 'annotations.previousShortSHA'
annotations:
    previousShortSHA: "1615"