YAML - Introduction

YAML introduction

YAML stands for Ain’t Markup Language, and new data format serialization language like toml or ini. This course series posts help you to get basics of YAML with examples for learning.

Important points - It is case sensitive - file extension is .yaml - Tabs are not allowed, - Some editors allows spaces

Advantages of yaml

• Lightweight
• It is very easy and simple for represent complex mapping
• Human friendly readable and writable
• Simple to modify with any text editor
• Suitable for configuration settings
• Support for major programming languages

Disadvantages of yaml

• It is new format introduced recently, learning curve exists.
• Not much popular other than xml and json
• YAML has meaning for

yaml file extension

yaml files are created with extension yaml . You can use any IDE or text editor to open this file.

All the popular IDE supports the yaml file extension and also provides plugins to validate the yaml file content.

MIME format type - text/yaml

There is no office MIME type for yaml document content as per IANA, but it can be represented using text/yaml or text/x-yaml or application/x-yaml

When yaml data is transfered between client and server,Implementation vendors add MIME type settings specified in request and response across internet. Content-Type and accept headers in a request object are specified with this format following is the mime type for this documents

text/yaml

and request contains the below value for yaml data sending over the internet

Content-type : text/yaml