Welcome

YAML 1.1 parser and emitter for Java.

Requirements

SnakeYAML requires Java 7 or higher (The latest version built for Java 6 is 1.23).

SnakeYAML does not depend on any external library (but the tests do).

Info

• Changes
• Installation
• Documentation
• Frequently Asked Questions
• How to for common tasks
• Compact Object Notation
• Android support
• From Hg to GIT
• YAML 1.2 support
• Billion laughs attack
• Variable substitution

Quick start

Loading (de-serialize):

Yaml yaml = new Yaml();
Object obj = yaml.load("a: 1\nb: 2\nc:\n  - aaa\n  - bbb");
System.out.println(obj);

{b=2, c=[aaa, bbb], a=1}

Dumping (serialise):

Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
map.put("name", "Pushkin");
Yaml yaml = new Yaml();
String output = yaml.dump(map);
System.out.println(output);

--- 
name: Pushkin

For more details, please check Documentation

Contribute

• GIT is used to dance with the source code.
• If you find a bug in SnakeYAML, please file a bug report.
• You may discuss SnakeYAML at the mailing list.
• Release process
• How to generate PGP signature
• How to test with different JDKs

Author and copyright

The SnakeYAML library is developed by the team of developers and it is based on PyYAML module written by Kirill Simonov.

SnakeYAML is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Have fun!