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That's nice, I like that. Related, if you want more of a csv-style, see JSONLines. aka "newline-delimited JSON" http://jsonlines.org/ http://jsonlines.org/

• emmelaich 7y ago
  I don't see what jsonlines has over yaml; in fact the jsonlines examples presented there are almost trivially converted to yaml. e.g. the first example is valid yaml if you add a '- ' to each line. And JSON is (almost) a perfect subset of yaml. I've been using csv lately. It's reputation is overstated. What I like is that it's far more compact than yaml or json and trivially pulled into sqlite for ad-hoc queries.
  • mirimir 7y ago
    > ... and trivially pulled into sqlite for ad-hoc queries. Or spreadsheets, to work out a plan, and then MySQL.
  • geofft 7y ago
    One thing I like about JSON Lines is robustness to bad data - if an individual line is corrupted, you can discard it / print a warning and move on, and the parser can start again at the next newline. This makes it useful for log messages / metrics, because if something crashes while emitting a log line, you can recover. If something crashes while emitting an item in a YAML list, you might corrupt the entire rest of the document. Another is that it makes streaming processing a little easier. Once you have a line, you know you can attempt to process it, and you can shard processing on newlines without a full YAML processor. Tools that work on newlines or tools that can just split on lines can handle the first level of JSON Lines output.