YAML Configuration

A Library to use YAML as a configuration file format with apache commons-configuration.

Commons configuration already supports xml and java properties files, this adds YAML support. This uses SnakeYaml to digest the configuration files.

Usage

Dependencies:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-configuration2</artifactId>
    <version>2.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
    <version>1.9.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>
    <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId>
    <version>1.17</version>
</dependency>

In code:

import org.m410.config.YamlConfiguration;

YamlConfiguration config = new FileBasedConfigurationBuilder<>(YamlConfiguration.class)
         .configure(new Parameters().hierarchical().setFileName("src/test/resources/test1.yml"))
         .getConfiguration();

Issues

• This is not battled tested in any way.
• If your using a yaml file with multiple configurations divided by '---' it will only work on the first configuration. I have a workaround in the YamlEnvConfiguration file, but it's pretty ugly and will be going away shortly.
• If you have a list of elements, with different values, they probably won't get placed at the correct index. As far as I can see, there's no way to insure the index is right when writing out to a text file.
• Pretty safe to say there's other issues that I haven't found yet, this is ALPHA.