Bug #5025: YAML::Syck::Map#children returns [nil, nil]

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18 revision 29036) [x86_64-linux]

[trans (Thomas Sawyer)]

ruby-1.9.2-p0 > d = YAML.load('--- { a: 1, b: 2 }')
=> {"a"=>1, "b"=>2}
ruby-1.9.2-p0 > d = YAML.parse('--- { a: 1, b: 2 }')
=> #Syck::Map:0x00000001890840
ruby-1.9.2-p0 > d.children
=> [nil, nil]

[trans (Thomas Sawyer)]

Try that again:

 d = YAML.parse('--- { a: 1, b: 2 }')
   => #<Syck::Map:0x00000001890840>
  ruby-1.9.2-p0 > d.children
   => [nil, nil] 

[tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

Hi,

Please use Psych rather than syck. I don't think parse was meant to be public API in Syck, but I do consider it to be public API in Psych. The only problem is that the method exposes the parse tree for the YAML document. There isn't a way I can make the parse tree backwards compatible, and there were no tests for the parse tree in the first place.