2.32. Configuring YAML Streams


Procedure 2.1. Task

  1. Configure your reader to process YAML files as shown:
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <smooks-resource-list xmlns="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks-1.1.xsd" xmlns:yaml="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks/yaml-1.4.xsd">
     
        <yaml:reader/>
     
    </smooks-resource-list>
    
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  2. Configure the YAML stream to contain multiple documents. The reader handles this by adding a document element as a child of the root element. An XML-serialized YAML stream with one empty YAML document looks like this:
    <yaml>
        <document>
        </document>
    </yaml>
    
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  3. Configure Smooks programmatically to read a YAML configuration by exploiting the YamlReaderConfigurator class:
    Smooks smooks = new Smooks();
     
    smooks.setReaderConfig(new YamlReaderConfigurator()
            .setRootName("root")
            .setDocumentName("doc")
            .setArrayElementName("e"))
            .setAliasStrategy(AliasStrategy.REFER_RESOLVE)
            .setAnchorAttributeName("anchor")
            .setAliasAttributeName("alias");
     
    // Use Smooks as normal...
    
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