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diff --git a/vendor/go.yaml.in/yaml/v3/README.md b/vendor/go.yaml.in/yaml/v3/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..15a85a635 --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/go.yaml.in/yaml/v3/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,171 @@ +go.yaml.in/yaml +=============== + +YAML Support for the Go Language + + +## Introduction + +The `yaml` package enables [Go](https://go.dev/) programs to comfortably encode +and decode [YAML](https://yaml.org/) values. + +It was originally developed within [Canonical](https://www.canonical.com) as +part of the [juju](https://juju.ubuntu.com) project, and is based on a pure Go +port of the well-known [libyaml](http://pyyaml.org/wiki/LibYAML) C library to +parse and generate YAML data quickly and reliably. + + +## Project Status + +This project started as a fork of the extremely popular [go-yaml]( +https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/) +project, and is being maintained by the official [YAML organization]( +https://github.com/yaml/). + +The YAML team took over ongoing maintenance and development of the project after +discussion with go-yaml's author, @niemeyer, following his decision to +[label the project repository as "unmaintained"]( +https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/blob/944c86a7d2/README.md) in April 2025. + +We have put together a team of dedicated maintainers including representatives +of go-yaml's most important downstream projects. + +We will strive to earn the trust of the various go-yaml forks to switch back to +this repository as their upstream. + +Please [contact us](https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C08PPAT8PS7) if you +would like to contribute or be involved. + + +## Compatibility + +The `yaml` package supports most of YAML 1.2, but preserves some behavior from +1.1 for backwards compatibility. + +Specifically, v3 of the `yaml` package: + +* Supports YAML 1.1 bools (`yes`/`no`, `on`/`off`) as long as they are being + decoded into a typed bool value. + Otherwise they behave as a string. + Booleans in YAML 1.2 are `true`/`false` only. +* Supports octals encoded and decoded as `0777` per YAML 1.1, rather than + `0o777` as specified in YAML 1.2, because most parsers still use the old + format. + Octals in the `0o777` format are supported though, so new files work. +* Does not support base-60 floats. + These are gone from YAML 1.2, and were actually never supported by this + package as it's clearly a poor choice. + + +## Installation and Usage + +The import path for the package is *go.yaml.in/yaml/v3*. + +To install it, run: + +```bash +go get go.yaml.in/yaml/v3 +``` + + +## API Documentation + +See: <https://pkg.go.dev/go.yaml.in/yaml/v3> + + +## API Stability + +The package API for yaml v3 will remain stable as described in [gopkg.in]( +https://gopkg.in). + + +## Example + +```go +package main + +import ( + "fmt" + "log" + + "go.yaml.in/yaml/v3" +) + +var data = ` +a: Easy! +b: + c: 2 + d: [3, 4] +` + +// Note: struct fields must be public in order for unmarshal to +// correctly populate the data. +type T struct { + A string + B struct { + RenamedC int `yaml:"c"` + D []int `yaml:",flow"` + } +} + +func main() { + t := T{} + + err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(data), &t) + if err != nil { + log.Fatalf("error: %v", err) + } + fmt.Printf("--- t:\n%v\n\n", t) + + d, err := yaml.Marshal(&t) + if err != nil { + log.Fatalf("error: %v", err) + } + fmt.Printf("--- t dump:\n%s\n\n", string(d)) + + m := make(map[interface{}]interface{}) + + err = yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(data), &m) + if err != nil { + log.Fatalf("error: %v", err) + } + fmt.Printf("--- m:\n%v\n\n", m) + + d, err = yaml.Marshal(&m) + if err != nil { + log.Fatalf("error: %v", err) + } + fmt.Printf("--- m dump:\n%s\n\n", string(d)) +} +``` + +This example will generate the following output: + +``` +--- t: +{Easy! {2 [3 4]}} + +--- t dump: +a: Easy! +b: + c: 2 + d: [3, 4] + + +--- m: +map[a:Easy! b:map[c:2 d:[3 4]]] + +--- m dump: +a: Easy! +b: + c: 2 + d: + - 3 + - 4 +``` + + +## License + +The yaml package is licensed under the MIT and Apache License 2.0 licenses. +Please see the LICENSE file for details. |
